Posted on 10/27/2009 4:11:52 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
CBS News is reporting that McAllen is the most multilingual city in the United States, according to the latest census data.
The Census Bureau Tuesday released its American Community Survey results, which charts a range of social, economic and housing data in U.S. metropolitan areas.
CBS reported that the running survey, which is different from the traditional once-a-decade census, tracks three years worth of data.
The latest figures cover 2006 to 2008.
Among the findings:
• McAllen, Texas has the highest percentage of people age 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home - 84.2 percent while Charleston, West Virginia has the lowest - 1.8 percent.
El Paso, Texas is the only other metro area with more than three-quarters of its population speaking another language.
• The Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area ranks first in foreign-born citizens with 36.9 percent. Altoona, Pa., ranks last with just 0.9 percent.
Only two other areas top 30 percent - San Jose, Calif., and Los Angeles.
• San Jose, Calif., boasts the highest median home values - $739,700 - while Odessa, Texas ranks last with $68,200. California dominates the country in this category.
While San Jose is the only metro area to top the $700,000 median value, the six others that exceed $600,000 - Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Salinas, Napa, Santa Barbara and Oxnard - are all in the Sunshine State.
• Provo-Orem, Utah and Laredo, Texas share the top spot for largest average household with 3.5 people. Ocean City, N.J., ranks last with 2.0 people per household.
• New Yorkers have the longest commute to work, checking in at 34.5 minutes, followed closely by Washington, D.C., at 33.2 minutes.
Residents in Grand Forks, N.D., have the shortest commute and live in the only metro area with an average commute time under 15 minutes.
McAllen is the example used by Obama to demonstrate how much money is being spent badly on health care. He never mentions the immigration issue and its impact.
Multilingual - CBS (Globalist) applying lip gloss to the fact the majority are Mexicans who move to McAllen, Texas (legally or illegally) and never bother to learn English.
It would be like a town in Mexico that Anglos end up taking over and never speaking Spanish in a Spanish-speaking country.
The Liberal/Alinsky/Cloward-Piven/Obama/Pelosi/Soros-types understand that DIVISION and LANGUAGE & ETHNIC GHETTOS are easy to control as assimilation makes one less needy and STATISTS need the downtrodden to further control.
Er, that says to me that they are the LEAST "multilingual", given, I'll bet, that that "language other than English" is Mexican.
Show me a breakdown of languages and then we can see who is the most "multilingual".
Clear proof that "multilingual" is just a code word for "Spanish." If 84.2 percent of a city's residents all speak the same language at home—and trust me, all those non-English-speakers in McAllen aren't conversing in Gullah or Creole or Tagalog or Yup'ik—then that city isn't particularly multilingual at all.
84.2 % speaking Spanish sounds pretty monolingual to me, not multlingual.
I’m headed to Charleston, West Virginia!
Country Roads;^)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN86d0CdgHQ
Macallen’s fame is not something to be proud of.
It’s time to end all this multiculi nonsense and
pass English as the official American language and
do away with all this duplicity in official documents
and schools.
I would define the “most multilingual” as the place where the largest number of distinctly different languages are spoken. That would probably be New York City.
Multilingual = good. That is something to take pride in.
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McAllen’s unemployment is one of the highest in Texas.
McAllen isn’t multilingual. It’s a Mexican city with a modest Anglo expat community.
Our local school district here in Anchorage (AK) is soooo proud that 43 different languages are spoken in the system.
Which might explain the under 60% graduation rate and the enormous dropout rates, or maybe not....
How many are illiterate in two or more languages?
Not. With liberal public schools it mostly depends on their parents now.
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