[Texas resident]

Delaware. Chinese. Wonder why?

[Myrddin]

Interesting to see German for Idaho. I practice my German proficiency daily on Duolingo. I need to spend more time with Welsh, Gaelic, Spanish, Italian and French. I was making some progress with Japanese as it isn't a tonal language. A rank beginner at reading hiragana and katakana and almost no Kanji proficiency. On Android, the "Hello Chinese" app makes Mandarin more approachable than Duolingo.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Chinese...”
Which one?

Mandarin?
Cantonese?
Gan?
Hakka?
Min?
Wu?
Xiang?

[ifinnegan]

Haitian isn’t a language, it’s French.

Chinese isn’t either, it could be Mandarin or Cantonese.

[dfwgator]

Surprised in Texas it isn’t Hindi.

[Mark17]

I am surprised it isn’t Tagalog in California.

[Skid289]

Why not include Spanish as a non English language? It would dwarf the percentage of all other non English languages spoken in every state, and probably would exceed English in several states right now. And in a few more years it will be every state.

[dr_lew2]

Ich habe Deutsch auf Hochschule gelernen, aber ich sprecht Deutsch nicht.

... I hope that’s right... except by Hochschule, I mean High School, and I know that’s not right!

[dead]

Portugese for New Jersey. That makes perfect sense. That’s all Newark/Kearny/Harrison. Outstanding restaurants in that area!

[wardaddy]

We get a load of viet gals in bridesmaid parties on lower broad here in music city from my home state of Mississippi mostly the coast

Southern sweet accents and all cowgirled up

It’s a hoot

And they get plastered too

Some of them

They are so cute and sweet

Tend to be thinner which is nice

Very southernized

From bayou la batre Alabama to port Arkansas Texas

Quite a few deposited there after the perilous boat trip

These are the grandchildren or greats even

It’s a good story and they tend to vote right unique amongst migrants

[zeestephen]

From memory...

In 1939, when World War II started, 50% of American citizens had at least one German grandparent.

That number might have been higher when the USA entered World War I in 1917.

Contrast those numbers with 2023...

Almost 100% of USA Muslims support Hamas and the Gaza terror state against Israel.

[FLT-bird]

60 years ago before Ted Kennedy’s immigration act, German was easily the 2nd most common practically everywhere in the US. German was the single largest ethnic group and at 17% STILL IS. It used to be more like 1/3rd of the population.

[EnderWiggin1970]

Surprised that no Indian language topped the list in Oklahoma. For all the Indian nation license plates here you’d think more would retain speaking their ancestral tongue.

[x]

Here's if you don't take out Spanish:

I wonder why Tagalog replaces Japanese in Hawaii, and suspect that some people may have said they speak Japanese or Polish or Italian or French or German to honor a heritage and not because they actually speak it. That might also have been true of Portuguese, but a lot of Brazilians have come to the US in recent decades. Also, French on the Upper East Side of Manhattan? Real or just pretentiousness. How many of those Germans are Amish or Amish-adjacent Mennonites and such?