Friday, May 10, 2019

Code red GET ME REWRITE: The "speak Engish, dammit" crowd is much most likely to be old, undereducated, and Republican


Source:  Pew Research

This is Donald Trump's America.  (CNN, 5/8/2019)
Dig into the numbers and things get even grimmer. Among white Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, fully 47% say it would bother them, a lot (20%) or some (27%), to hear a language other than English spoken in public. Just one in four (26%) of that group said hearing a foreign language in public wouldn't bother them at all. (By contrast, 58% of white Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters said hearing a language other than English wouldn't bother them at all.)

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