Column: How California helped Trump make English the official national language
- Posted on March 4, 2025
- By Los Angeles Times
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Column: How California helped Trump make English the official national language

Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned out to be a bunch of — excuse my Spanish — caca.