Posted on 10/24/2017 10:20:38 AM PDT by EdnaMode
In California--which with a July 2016 population of 39,250,017 is the nation’s most populous state--44.6 percent of the people five years of age and older do not speak English at home, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.
At the same time, according to the Census Bureau, 18.6 percent of California residents 5 and older do not speak English “very well.”
That ranks California No.1 among the states for the percentage of people in both of these categories.
Nationwide, 21.6 percent speak a language other than English at home and 8.6 percent speak English less than very well.
Texas ranked second for the percentage of residents five and older who do not speak English at home (35.6 percent). New Mexico ranked third (34.5 percent); New Jersey ranked fourth (31.7 percent) and New York ranked fifth (31.0 percent).
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The national figure is 20%.
Time to stop immigration until 100% can speak our language.
My Father learned to speak English in 1st grade. He turned out OK.
[35.6% in Texas]
See ya at the bill signing. /W
¡Ay, caramba!
Illegal immigration IS colonization.
BOTH parties have been encouraging the illegal alien inundation.
We ARE losing our country.
I should have touched on speaking English in the home.
It’s clear of those 44.6% in California, some of them can actually speak English.
Not quite. I grew up in a neighborhood of ADULT immigrants who truly did not speak English. Jewish adults from across Europe. A block away there were ITALIAN Adult immigrants who who not speak english.
Part of our school records was the question “Whay LANGUAGE is generally spoke at HOME?”
Here is the AMERICAN way of doing things. By the time we children passed through the AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL system of the time, we were fluent in the language of the land, knowledgable in Geography, arithmetic, history (European and American), and could even (Honestly) READ and WRITE and add over ten with our socks still on.
The difference today is the failing AMERICAN schools.
According to the Census Bureau:
Hillary won 16 out of 20 of the states (plus DC) with the highest percentage of people who don’t speak English at home.
Trump won 18 of 20 states that finished with the highest percentage of people who speak English at home.
If you don’t count Ebonics as English the real number of Californians who do not speak English at home is closer to 66%.
Folks, we are being invaded. All done with a wink of an eye from Bush and Obama.
Immigrants who came here a hundred years ago all struggled with English to one degree or another.
But they were all TRYING to speak English.
Not so for this crowd. They want to force the rest of us to accommodate them in Spanish.
My mother refused to speak German after she immigrated to the US in 1948. “I am an American,” she would proudly state.
When I grew up in Brooklyn in the 50s not too many of my neighbors spoke English at home. They spoke Polish, German, Spanish, or Italian. Of course, the difference then was that the kids all spoke English, and the families had come to America through Ellis Island and wanted to be Americans. My mother, a product of WW II, was always a little suspicious of some of the Germans and their “bund” groups, but that’s another story.
DEPORT THEM ALL. Bet most are illegal.
Interesting you should say that! My father's father emigrated to the US from Spain in 1901. He would only speak English around the house.
Now, what influence his Irish-American, Vermont-born wife may have had on that, I'll never know... :-)
Those at the turn of the last century had the mindset of “We’re Americans now, we speak English”.
Time to revisit history and close the border for 40+yrs. No more bi\tri-lingual ANYTHING.
we are close to the tipping point where their people will get elected and then like London it’s over.
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