Ann’s rant continues,

Good luck to the rest of the world when the U.S. is Mexico-Norte.

Which is happening faster than you might think. By now, America has taken in about one-third of Mexico’s entire population. And that’s to say nothing of El Salvador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and the other poverty-ridden countries to our south.

Since 1980, the Hispanic population in the U.S. has exploded from about 14 million to 71 million, or 21% of the population. Add in the other dissonant cultures that have come from places like Africa and the Middle East, and America is less than a generation away from white Westerners becoming a minority.

Ugly enough for you? Coulter sounds like the reincarnation of Pat Buchanan, who also worried about what shade America’s majority would be. I had forgotten how anti-Catholic Ann Coulter is, along with being anti-Mexican, anti-South and Central American, and anti-legal immigration.

Fact 1: This was the same kind of bigotry focused on the Italians and the Irish when they started taking over Boston in the 19th Century.

Fact 2: Catholics have a well-embedded work-ethic, believe in traditional families, and have a strong moral code that the rest of the population would do well to absorb a bit of as well.

Fact 3: Islam by its own edicts resists assimilation. Analogizing Mexicans to Muslims is willfully deceptive, unless Ann really believes that, in which case it’s inexcusably ignorant.

Fact 4: I don’t know why my work with the National Chamber Foundation has popped up twice this week already, but whatever: by far my favorite mass study was the NCF’s report on Hispanic business in the U.S., in which my major partner was the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. All of our research (the project was funded by PepsiCo, among others) kept proving that Hispanics wanted to hold on to their culture but were adept at adopting U.S. culture as well, and that they were committed capitalists, believed in core American values, were instinctively conservative, and were an asset in all respects, not the threat to our nation that the Muslims are to Europe.

One genuine cultural clash was a constant source of debate: the weird cultural norm still flourishing South of the Border in which being on time for anything—meetings, appointments, weddings, dinner parties—is considered optional. But the Mexicans on our committee unanimously agreed that the “manana” habit was a self-inflicted handicap Mexican-Americans had to abandon, along with not mastering English, or condemn themselves to underclass status.

Oh, I almost forgot: Shut up, Ann.