[LS]

See, you can prove anything anecdotally. I grew up with Hispanics in Arizona and they all spoke English, but my did spoke Spanish as a means of better communicating with the parents. But the statistics don't lie on German/Polish/Lithuanian (etc.) immigrant assimilation, which was slower.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We have sections of Orange county where you can't read the signs either.

But they are in the various oriental languages!

And not far from those you can find arabic placards!