bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Merkel and Propaganda":
Texas German language speakers dying out because the last generation to be taught German as a primary or secondary language grew up in the 1950s. The two world wars put the German language out of favor in Texas, and the US generally. In public school most often only Spanish or French are offered, not German, even though for most people, learning German would help in academics and business much more than learning Spanish or French does. Spanish is good if one wants a govt job dealing in social work in the US, but now with net migration of Mexicans to the US being zero, and improved border security, its usefulness will be limited. (Even the politicians realize that the US must practice austerity now since the credit agencies are getting nervous about US debt, and spending a few billion on border security is a much better proposition than paying trillions in social benefits to illegal immigrants, or paying to deport millions of persons):
German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22490560
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Christianity declining 50pc faster than thought – ...":
One in five Latinos in the US are now Evangelical. If they leave the Evangelical faith, they typically don't go back to the RCC, but become unaffiliated. However, due to some legal and mostly illegal immigration, the number of Latinos in the pews in Catholic churches remains steady. So just as the RCC Counter-Reformation was bolstered by looted Aztec gold, the RCC is bolstered in America by the influx of illegals. Imagine that!
The article says that the new Hispanic pope (born to Italian immigrants) wants to stem the loss of Latinos to Evangelicals in America and S America:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2013/05/10/switching-sides-latinos-ditching-catholicism-for-evangelical-churches/
Evangelicals now number about 20 percent of the Latino population, according to the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
"We are not picking up any trends of people returning to the Roman Catholic Church. If they don't become Protestant or Pentecostal, they typically become un-affiliated,” said Lugo.
