Fascinating map.
Thanks for posting.
Tower of Babel.
I’ve never heard of Gujarati.
Arabic in TN ???
The Kurds in Nashville ???
Racists!
What about Ebonics?
Southern drawl?
Is that one of the detailed census questions on the full form? The one I just write “none of your business” on?
West Virginia and Tennessee...Arabic? Who’da thunk it?
Not one State that speaks ebonics is hard to believe.
Vietnamese must be a very close second to Tagalog in California.
When I was young, an American could travel anywhere in the country without needing a foreign language.
I am a prep school science retired teacher who tutors GED students in TX.
Boy what a difference there is across cultures.
Muslim and Latin men will not take instruction from a woman. Muslim women treat you like a “dimmi”.
Asian men and women, on the other hand, work their backsides off and will take instructions from anyone who knows their stuff.
Fascinating map and some real surprises there:
* German in interior west and north
* Philippinos have spread that much to Nevada
* Chinese in Utah, Missouri and Arkansas
* Vietnamese in TX, OK and KS
* Somali in MN - we all knew there was a lot of government-driven importation of Somalis to MN, but this much? It overtook German or Swedish? Yikes.
* Arabic in Michigan. Same as Somali in MN. But Arabic in TN and WV? Really?
* Haitian Creole in Delaware. Wow.
* Korean in Virgina
* Good to see Pennsylvania Dutch still tops in Pennsylvania.
* Nepali in Nebraska? Wow. Why did they settle there? It’s not like there are many mountains to remind them of home.
There seem to be only a few states where the traditional first generation immigrants from Europe still hold sway. Illinois with Polish, Upper New England with French; North Carolina with French; French in Louisiana; German in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky; French in North Carolina; German in South Carolina.
Inescapable conclusion: Our European roots are rapidly disappearing. Along with our identification with Western Civilization.
I’ve never heard of the Hawaiian language Ilocano. What is that?
At least there’s one good thing about Illinois.
Tagalog..................interesting............
I am not at all surprised by Illinois, as it has a very large Polish demographic. I’d venture to say that Serbian would be not all that far behind Polish in Illinois. In my immediate neighborhood alone there are several Serb families, but Poles still have more. The muzz are moving in in droves, though, but they are still mostly to the south of me; however, there are two muzz families within three blocks of me, and they are SURLY, and they hate dogs. Walking your dog by their houses elicits some very hostile looks.
It’s all about borders,language and culture and America is losing all three. America is now just a big colony.
I’m surprised that Portuguese is the third most common language in Connecticut, I thought it would be Polish...