A Harvard political scientist published a book in 2004 claiming that massive waves of Latin American immigrants threaten the dominance of the English language and America’s core identity. In “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity,” Samuel Huntington also theorized that second- and even third-generation immigrant families may still retain Spanish as their language of choice.

Last week, however, three sociologists released the results of a decade-long linguistic study refuting that claim and going so far as to say the United States is a veritable “graveyard for foreign languages.” “English has never been seriously threatened as the dominant language in America, nor is it today — not even in Southern California, home to the largest concentration of Spanish-speaking immigrants,” concluded Rubén Rumbaut, Frank Bean and Douglas Massey in their joint study through the University of California at Irvine and Princeton University.

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