Should the US become Spanish-English-speaking?

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yo vote spanglish

We should be an English only country.

If you cant talk English goodly then you should vamos!

People will speak the language that they are most comfortable with, n'cest pas?

Spanish is the "second language," de facto, within urban areas. And within certain parts of the Northeast and the West.

Within most of the country, though, this is really not so.

English is absolutely required for mainstream success, even in areas where there's a strong Spanish (or Korean, Chinese, etc) presence.

Yes, people do survive in their enclaves. Most of the time, though, their children have to serve as translators when these people are forced to deal with the bureaucracy.

Actually I am all for keeping English as the one official language of the USA for the forseable future. The government shouldnt suppress diversity, but the Government shouldnt subsidize diversity either. Nothing against Hispanic immigrants, but we should not take away incentives for them to learn English.

I think every country in the world should stop enforcing any official language. It'd be only a matter of time for everybody, everywhere, to end up speaking one global language.

Agreed. As others have mentioned, the US, and most states have no 'official language'. I grew up between Maine and North Dakota. In Maine, French is spoken in many places by people native to the state, and for my great-grandparents, it was the first language spoken.

Although it is dying off by now, in North Dakota people spoke either Norwegian or German, and some still do, although it is a 'household' language, rather than what is still spoken on the streets.

English is the default 'lingua-franca' of the US, as Spanish is the default 'lingua-franca' if you will of Mexico, which saw emigration patterns from Europe and Asia in the 19th and early 20th centuries that were similar to those that were experienced in the rest of North America.