Surprised me for California, too. I would have assumed that Vietnamese was easily the third most common language… clearly my notion of the demographics of the state are warped by who I went to school with. Although looking up what the most prevalent languages are, according to various sources, Tagalog isn’t the most spoken after English and Spanish for California, it’s “Chinese” (Mandarin and Cantonese), with Tagalog fourth and Vietnamese fifth… so this map probably isn’t the most accurate.
I also would have assumed Hindi was more prominent than it is, but I guess parts of this is that the languages of India are all counted separately while other languages associated with one country get counted as one, so it’s all a bit arbitrary.
Yeah, though presumably it’s a list derived in part from what people prefer for written information, so Mandarin and Cantonese can be lumped together. Also, the various “languages spoken” lists I’m looking at right now sometimes arbitrarily lump together completely different languages based on place of origin, too. It’s all a bit of a mess, really.
This is really more for @anon36155390; but anyone who wants to know more about WV?
I-68 isn’t very representative. It’s a fine road, but as soon as you leave Morgantown it goes into a State forest and is basically preserve land until you hit Maryland. Pretty, but doesn’t represent the population of the state.
If you want to know more about who lives in WV? I’d recommend US-60; starting in Huntington and working your way east. It would hit Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and take you into the “vacation area” too. The eastern part past Hico / US19 is a little sparse; but if you have time Sam Black Church, Rainelle, Lewisburg, and White Sulphur Springs is worth a look.
I know there’s a large Kurdish population in Nashville (the largest outside Asia, IIRC) but I wasn’t expecting Arabic in TN. I might’ve expected Amharic for DC or MD, though.
I definitely live in Western Portuguese. The Eastern part of the state speaks English with the letter “r” in everything though…except words containing “r”.
After watching the movie Picture Claire, I wondered if they took dramatic license in portraying the percentage of people outside Québec who don’t speak French.
My wife is filipino. A lot of places with a huge service industry have a mix of Hispanic (mostly from Mexico) and Filipinos. Hospitals as well, lots of people coming here as nurses.
People don’t notice because they don’t recognize the accent and even with name tags are led to believe they are Hispanic due to commonly Spanish names.
People speak a lot of Spanish to my wife everywhere we go, but rarely Tagalog. And how do Filipinos greet each other in Tagalog? “Hola Como Estas!”
ahh, good point. and because i don’t have any connection to the gaming industry here, i’m sure i just don’t see or notice the population differences that way.
I think the difference between your map and the other one you linked to is you used “Most commonly spoken at home” and the other just
“(3rd?) most popular (language in the province)”. There’s probably a LOT of homes where French or English is the primary language used at home but they can also speak another language.
Our school district had a lot of Filipino teachers – it still does, but a lot of them were let go following a labor dispute.
The Labor Department (under a previous administration) made the schools hand over back pay, and not issue any more work visas until they straightened it all out. After the school did so, and got the go-ahead to issue more visas, they decided instead that they just weren’t going to deal with it anymore.
The Portuguese have been a fixture in Boston MA for a long, long, time. Mostly Cape Verdeans back in the sixties. Never ever call them Africans even though Cape Verde is closer to Senegal than Portugal. They identify very strongly as Portuguese.
By the end of the 1980s, the Vietnamese businesses had moved to Milam Street in what is now Midtown.[22] This area became known as “Vietnamtown”.[4]
Somewhat related, a few years back I was on a flight from Seoul to Houston. The woman on the plane next to me was Vietnamese and despite having lived in Houston for over 20 years she spoke barely any English. I spent at least an hour of the flight trying to help her with the customs forms. In over 2 decades working in Houston she never had a job without enough customers and coworkers speaking Vietnamese that she needed to learn English
I used to go to Van Loc when it was open. Most of the Vietnamese restaurants I go to are outside that area like Vietnam in the Heights, & Vietnam Coast on Hillcroft.
Any Democrat who wishes to win on a national stage should look at West Virginian politics.
Democrats held the WV house of Delegates from 1930 - 2014
Democrats held the WV Senate from 1933 - 2014.
Democrats held the WV Governor’s chair from 1933 - 2017 except for Arch More Jr. (1969 - 1976, 1985-1888) and Cecil H. Underwood (1957 - 1960;1997 - 2000). Note that Jim Justice, the WV governor mentioned in the article was elected as a Democrat and has not been re-elected as a Republican yet.
One of West Virginia’s Senators is Democratic (Joe Manchin); one is Republican, who is the first Republican WV Senator since 1958. There were two Republican senators between the 1930’s and 1958.
Between 1933 and 2000, WV’s electorial college votes went Republican only three times.
What happened? The Democrats abandoned Labor. WV was a strong Union state. WV’s economy collapsed, and no one has been able to do anything about it. Republicans promised to help; Democrats haven’t. Combine that with the quixotic quest for gun control and…
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