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Title: Census Bureau: 44.6% in California Don’t Speak English at Home; 35.6% in Texas; 34.5% in NM; 31.7% in NJ; 31.0% in NY
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CNS News
URL Source: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/articl ... -english-home-356-texas-345-nm
Published: Oct 24, 2017
Author: Terence P. Jeffrey
Post Date: 2017-10-24 19:27:01 by cranky
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Views: 608
Comments: 3
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). States Ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau by the Percentage of People 5 and Older Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home: West Virginia had the smallest percentage of residents (2.5 percent) who spoke a language other than English at home. Montana had the second smallest (3.7 percent); Mississippi had the third smallest (3.8 percent); Alabama, the fourth (5.1 percent); and North Dakota the fifth (5.2 percent). The Census Bureau asks about the language people speak in their homes and how well they speak English in its American Community Survey. The numbers released this week were for the 2016 survey. “We ask one question about whether people speak a language other than English at home, what language they speak, and how well they speak English to create a profile of the languages spoken in communities,” says the Census Bureau on its website. The first question on language the Census Bureau asks respondents is a yes-no question: “Does this person speak a language other than English at home?” If the answer is “yes,” there are two follow up questions: “What is this language?” “How well does this person speak English?” For this last question, respondents have the option to answer: very well, well, not well, or not at all. The percentages of those who fall into each category, as published by the Census Bureau, apply only to “people 5 years and over.” In addition to leading the nation with the percentage of residents 5 or older who speak a language other than English at home, California also led the nation for the percentage of people who, as the Census Bureau puts it, “speak English less than ‘very well.’” In 2016, 18.6 percent of the people 5 or older in California spoke English less than very well. Texas ranked second in this category (14.0 percent); New York was third (13.7 percent); New Jersey was fourth (12.6 percent), and Hawaii was fifth (12.2 percent). Montana was the state with the smallest percentage of residents who could not speak English very well (0.7 percent). West Virginia had the second smallest (0.8 percent); Vermont, the third (1.3 percent); Mississippi, the fourth (1.4 percent); and Maine, the fifth (1.7 percent). States Ranked by the U.S. Census Bureau by the Percentage of People 5 and Older Who Speak English Less Than Very Well: California also led the nation for the percentage of residents (27.2 percent) who are foreign born. New York was second (23.0 percent); New Jersey was third (22.5 percent); Florida was fourth (20.6 percent), and Nevada was fifth (20.0 percent). The five states with the smallest percentage of foreign-born residents were: West Virginia (1.7 percent), Mississippi (2.0 percent), Montana (2.1 percent), Wyoming (3.2 percent) and North Dakota (3.2 percent). Nationwide, according to the Census Bureau, 13.5 percent of the people are foreign born.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
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There seems to be a direct correlation between the wealth of a state and the number of non- English speakers. Put differently, the more English speaking a state is, the more impoverished it is. This is not surprising, and there's a good historical reason for it. In general, the most English-speaking states are states that were originally colonized by the English themselves, and that, thanks to the prevalence of slavery deterring unskilled workers to migrate into slave states, experienced less European immigration and remained more heavily English. Non-slave states got the bulk of the immigration and became more diverse. Now, truth is, the English were always a mediocre civilization in terms of human development - other areas of Europe - notably Italy and Germany and the Low countries and France - were more culturally advanced and more sophisticated than England. Mathematics, the Sciences, Music and Art mostly came out of Western Europe, not England. Sure there was Isaac Newton - a singular genius - but most of the discoveries and advancements came out of the burgeoning universities of Italy, France and Germany, or the intellectually curious and well- funded and free states of Holland. The English were more interested in applying brute force to natives and keeping their own in line than in investing in human capital. That trait followed the English flag into America, which meant that the areas that remained the most ethnically English, like West Virginia and Alabama, developed the least, while the areas that were the most diverse in terms of immigrants - New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and California - were enriched by the superior talents and arts that the different waves of immigrants brought. Inbreeding produces purer blood and purer stock, but purebred anything is inferior in both health and intellect to that which is mixed.
Interesting. My experience has been the more native born Americans in the state, the higher the state tax rates. As for your thoughts on England, comparing the accomplishments of one country to the accomplishments of several seems rather unequal. The frogs, krauts and wops, et al, couldn't even come up with a way to calculate longitude. that's my story and i'm sticking to it
But the Spanish gave them all a reason to have to! And the oceanfaring Spanish ships were originally all built and manned by Basques.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
the more English speaking a state is, the more impoverished it is
#3. To: cranky (#2)
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The frogs, krauts and wops, et al, couldn't even come up with a way to calculate longitude.
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