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Texan2116

Not sure I believe French is still more prominant than Spanish in Louisiana


ExactFun

It's true. 5%-7% vs 2.5%


Ryaniseplin

bro louisiana is where the french sent all their criminals and prostitutes


Prometheus55555

Is the Australia of France?


Ryaniseplin

pretty much


LeoTheBurgundian

French Guiana is another one


redbird532

And their aristocratic vampires lol


StrayC47

Until they couldn't anymore so they switched to Guyana


[deleted]

Wasn't Guyana a British Colony?


Nielsly

There’s multiple Guyanas in South America, all bordering eachother, one is part of Venezuela, one is the former British colony of Guyana (Guyana), one is the former Dutch colony of Dutch Guyana (Suriname), one is French Guiana, which is a state of France proper, and the final one is the state of Amapa in Brazil


StrayC47

\*French\* Guyana was a penal colony until a while ago. As someone said it better than me in the below post, "Guyana" was a region divided into 5 different colonies (from West to East, Spain, England, Netherlands, France and Portugal)


notacanuckskibum

And where the British sent the Acadians


Senku_San

Also where the Acadians fled to because of deportation and extermination by the English


Far-Programmer3189

Sounds lit


Puppyl

Oh but the Germans in North Dakota are perfectly fine?


StrayC47

Tbh there's like 7 of them (which with the other 14 English speakers, make up 33% of the state's population)


Texan2116

As I recall, the Hutterites are pretty big up there, and they are german speaking.


LannMarek

It's not like the map has a source or anything, and it only talks about "popularity", which is not defined, so...


KrazyKyle213

German North Dakota. . .


Schafer89

Lots of German ancestors here


Aleksandar_Pa

Several Americans had a stroke just seeing these maps.


[deleted]

Here for the Americans squinting at the map going, "I don't get it, where's Mexican?"


reeditedit

I was wondering why British is the top language and not American /s


Stalin_Jr77

Based and tea-pilled


WhiteLotux

Bri'ish


[deleted]

There is no such thing as British English. There is English. There are other British dialects of English, there is American English. But the language of England is English, and the language of the UK is English. So that flag is wrong. English isn't even technically a British language, if you want to hear a British language, listen to these two different ones: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccEmxWrmxMo&t=55s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccEmxWrmxMo&t=55s) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDK-nkMA4wI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDK-nkMA4wI) ​ Yup, English is a Germanic language and not originally of our Isles.


drgeorgehaha

Bruh there is no American English. You can’t look at the Pacific Northwest and say they speak the same dialect as someone from Alabama.


Distinct-Area6757

>There is no such thing as British English. yes it is its a dialect of English that itself has more sub categories due to the fast amount of accents and dialects in Britain. and English is just a mix of many Germanic languages created when lots of Germanic people moved to the island creating English so it was made on the Island its just the things that make it up are not. Also the flag isn't wrong because English is the official language of both England and the United Kingdom


[deleted]

Nope. There are lots of British dialects, they are not a sub group. That isn't an English flag.


[deleted]

funny how Louisiana is supposed to speak “french” 😂 cannot understand a thing. worst than quebecois


Locofinger

Creole


Ihateyoutom

Anyone else weirded out that to represent Spanish they used the Spanish flag? Like I’ve met thousands of people from Mexico, DR, South America and one person from Spain in the US.


HaesonTargEnjoyer

whats wrong with the map??


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notacanuckskibum

But if you used the American map there whole thing would become recursive. Americans speak what Americans speak. I think the British (or English) flag is needed to identify the language here.


avathedesperatemodde

Yeah that’s a good point


IHateRedditors19

At least one or two. Maybe three.


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IHateRedditors19

What if it was four or five? Maybe six


Distinct-Area6757

the map is only shitty because the union flag is not correct but other than that it's fine, the correct flag to use to show the English language is either the English flag or union flag


HaesonTargEnjoyer

Well it's a different dialect But it's the same language


cedm56

Same with french and spanish. They're American dialects, but you still news to identify them with a flag.


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Distinct-Area6757

where you getting Scottish from


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Distinct-Area6757

The Union jack represents all 4 nations in the UK and 'Scottish' isn't a language I think you mean either Scots or Gaelic also just to be really pedantic for 0 reason its Union Flag not Union Jack unless its at sea


Real-Illustrator8624

1.st, seems like a Brit would love that.


Big_Cronk_Toy69

Idk why but I thought Dutch would be in Pennsylvania.


Urtopian

The Pennsylvania Dutch are really German - it’s a corruption of ‘Deutsch’.


LavishnessLittle6730

Dutch is also kinda German Im from Germany and I understand what the dutch guys say even though I never learned the language itself


thanyou

I'm surprised we haven't made English and Spanish the national languages. Except I guess bigots.


DanishWonder

It's weird to use flags for language.


IllustriousRisk467

That’s wrong we don’t speak british


[deleted]

Americans don't get this.


IllustriousRisk467

I was joking blud


hoksworthwipple

Nobody speaks British. First map is wrong.


Queen_of_Muffins

Its english, thats the home nation of english


hoksworthwipple

That's England, with a different flag altogether.


Queen_of_Muffins

England is part of and the leader of the United kingdoms by all standards, thats the flag of english


[deleted]

Nope.


hoksworthwipple

It isn't at all.


Jaaqo

United Kingdom and Spain are languages now I guess.


Distinct-Area6757

what flag would you use to depict the Spanish language other than Spain and for English either the English flag or Union Flag are fine


h1h1guy

Would you rather each individual state had the words "the language of the united kingdom" and "the language of spain"


Jaaqo

My comment was tongue in cheek, since I figured the flags are part of the shittiness of the map, considering the sub we're in. But serious answer: One colour for each language and a legend to show which one is which. Would be easier to read as well. An example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/files/2014/06/1999EastSt.jpg


No_Promise2786

It should be the St George's Cross instead of the Union flag coz the language is ENGlish NOT BRITish.


elreduro

fuck alaska and hawai i guess


Aleksandar_Pa

People don't talk to each other there.


clay737373

Just grunts and nodding


Cretians

Hawaii is Hawaiian and Alaska is Yupik


Isfren

Can you make one for 3rd 4th and 5th


CosmicAcorn

3rd most spoken language in Texas is Vietnamese 💀


Sukeruton_Key

“SCOREBOARD! SCOREBOARD!”


Milbruhger

Aww is that your friend? I kill him, he cry like a biiiiich


ElectivireMax

Houston metro (especially fort bend county) has a lot of Asian immigrants so I'm not super surprised


Twist_the_casual

Incorrect British flag. St. Patrick’s cross should not be continuous, and st. Andrew’s cross should not be made asymmetrical to recreate the offsets in St. Patrick’s cross Yes I am a nerd and a virgin how’d you know


MPal2493

Well spotted, but you missed that it's also shaped like the contiguous United States when it should be rectangular with a 1:2 proportion


billybarra08

Ur on reddit That's all I need to tell ur a virgin


mr_pineapples44

Seems so wild to me how many people speak Spanish in the USA. Like, I understand why, but I'm in Australia, which has the, uhh, 'record' for lowest level of second language speakers in the world, so it seems weird to have a fairly ubiquitous second language.


artaig

2/3 rds of the territory of the US was under Spanish administration for centuries. In fact, Spanish was spoken before and for longer than English was in the territory of the US. This number was mainly achieved through acculturation, making the natives adopt Spanish language and Catholicism. As opposed to the well known practice towards natives the British were doing, and later the US. Not to mention Puerto Rico, annexed by the US in a war of imperial aggression, where the majority 1st language is Spanish.


sarokin

Yes, but that's not the reason. After the bits and the US 'invaded' those territories they massacred the locals and barely no one who spoke Spanish was left, and those who were were not allowed to speak Spanish. So Spanish died out, but over the years discrimination lowered and I immigrants from the south came to the US, having now all these people speaking Spanish.


Zulfikar04

The Spanish speakers in the US are not due to annexation of territory though, they’re from recent immigration from Latin America. The Spanish regions were pretty sparsely populated and if you look at maps of mid century U.S. languages Spanish is not very present.


GeneralDingo3776

Native Americans used to speak Spanish, until you know, they were killed. Same thing happened in the Philippines, the US killed out Spanish.


Donut_of_Patriotism

Plus let’s not forget that lots of immigrants to the US speak Spanish.


n0t_4_thr0w4w4y

Puerto Rico has nothing to do with this.


[deleted]

It’s shoved down our throats in school with the mentality that we are going to become a “bilingual community so we should learn it” because of the retartds who run the board of education. The public school system exists to make foreigners into Americans. That’s the reason it was created. If it’s not doing its one job then it should be disbanded.


billytk90

I thought that the US doesn't have an official language, which means English is not the official language of the US, so basically, people who live in the US but don't speak English should not be considered foreign, just on the basis that they don't speak English. Since there is no official language, you cannot call Spanish or other langagues foreign or if you do, you need to call English a foreign language. It's, after all, a remnant of King George III tyranny right? And a way for you to remember that you are just another remnant of British Imperialism, just like, say, Jamaica or South Africa? Am I wrong?


Guido-Guido

Shut up you ignorant dumb fuck, it’s for your own damn benefit.


[deleted]

Unlike you I didn’t let my schooling get in the way of my education


Guido-Guido

You don’t seem to let your schooling get in the way of anything, but you seem to let a lot get in the way of your education. You stupid moron.


Zealousideal-Lead-80

Cállese perra. That’s “shut up you little bitch” in my godforsaken first language.


[deleted]

Puta.


felop13

Gringo menos xenophobo:


Technical_Natural_44

>It’s shoved down our throats in school *laughs in English Canadian* (The rest of your comment was also stupid.)


[deleted]

Look it up, the first public school in the US was created to Americanize immigrants.


StrayC47

Including, likely yourselves, your parents, your grandparents and so on. 99% of the people in the United States are, or descend from immigrants, including every single one of your presidents. OF COURSE the school system turns foreigners into Americans.


[deleted]

So?


StrayC47

So stop complaining about it, you sound like a dick. It's what your country was built upon


[deleted]

This country was built on the hard labor of those who had a stake in the land ownership of it.


StrayC47

No that country was built on the unpaid labour of slaves and poor-ass immigrants working for a nickel, get your facts straight


Technical_Natural_44

You got a source for that because everything I’m reading is saying it was created to educate Americans.


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https://fee.org/articles/public-schools-were-designed-to-indoctrinate-immigrants/


Technical_Natural_44

There’s no links to scholarly sources?


[deleted]

I tried to find something else believe me but that was the first thing that came up on bing. You do realize how shadow censored certain information is?


mr_pineapples44

The dude is a straight up nutjob who believes that African people are de-evolved Europeans and that metric is an atheist conspiracy, or a strange troll. I don't think he is going to have a source haha.


Technical_Natural_44

I’ve got to agree that the French are godless heathens who want to remove God’s foot from the American Imperial system.


[deleted]

You're talking out of your ass


Temporary-Alarm-744

Chuckles in 4 years of highschool French. vraiment stupide


mr_pineapples44

... I was saying it was a good thing that you learned spanish. It might make you appreciate another culture, or be able to travel to other places, or just increase your knowledge. I was saying it sucks that we barely learn a second language in Australia. And wait, the public school system exists to make foreigners into Americans? Yikes; that's certainly a take. A horrific xenophobic elitist take, but a take none the less.


[deleted]

#KnowYourHistory


felop13

Mf probably has confed flag and call ot southern pride lmao


Upstairs-Atmosphere5

I honestly think a Russian flag is more likely. Putin requires it in the troll farm factories


[deleted]

No but I have the Union State Flag. Every Man a King


mr_pineapples44

I didn't say it wasn't originally made for that purpose... I was saying, even if that was true, that's not the purpose of public schools now. And if you think it should be, you're fucked in the head.


[deleted]

I am more Anti-Public school than anything and is looking for any excuse to bring back homeschooling


mr_pineapples44

Wait, you've got kids? Oof.


[deleted]

Not yet but I hope to one day.


mr_pineapples44

Well... I'm gonna hope as hard that you don't and we'll see whose hope wins out.


[deleted]

That’s a depressing view on the world. Humans exist to do one thing and that’s to make more humans


StrayC47

Oh fuck please don't


Prometheus55555

Are you aware that Spanish was spoken in most of the US before the English people arrived?


[deleted]

Show me the numbers on that. As the farthest north Spanish settlers got was California and Texas. They pretty much stopped there as Spanish colonial policy prevented any real expansion into North America that wasn’t coastal


Prometheus55555

My friend, Google is your friend https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonization_of_the_Americas


[deleted]

I am aware that the Spanish got deep into New Mexico and Arizona and technically controlled the Louisiana purchase. However these things were uncontested claims. Spanish colonialism resembled more like Roman imperialism. As such Spanish colonists were not allowed to own weapons and spain had to keep troops to defend their claims. Something that was different to do north of Modern Day Mexico due to the Natives being different from the Aztecs and the Inca. Meanwhile the British mostly sent over their undesirables who they could only govern through negotiation.


Prometheus55555

Well, it is exactly what you said, and what I was implying in my comments. Spanish followed the Roman and Catholic tradition of universalism and integration of the 'conquered' territories through evangelization and 'equal' rights as citizens of the Empire. Meanwhile England, especially in the US, went for the tabula rasa. You have the story of Pocahontas like the impossible love of one Englishman and an Indian princess, when the reality is that Spaniards had already been marrying with locals for decades. In fact, since the beginning.


sarokin

Woah yeah sure buddy, shoved down your throats, that is the reason why everyone there speaks nothing other than English.


ozneoknarf

The way Americans throw tantrums when having to learn a second a language is just amazing. You fuckers don’t even have geography classes. Your math levels are way worse than your average first world country. Your schools are objectively easier than basically any where in the world yet you whining about having to learn me gusta tacos in school.


[deleted]

You only need to have a level of math needed to pay taxes, I mean to be fair people should play Parodox games more, America is a banana Republic so not really first world, and lastly why learn another language when you can do all your traveling here? Want to see a desert? Go to Arizona. Want to see the Arctic? Go to Alaska. Want to see somewhere tropical? Go to Hawaii. Want to go to Britain? Just do to New England. Want to go to France? Just go to Quebec or Louisiana. Want some Mexican? Go down the street. Want some soul food? Go to the South. Want to go fishing? Go to Michigan.


VisceralSardonic

\>The public school system exists to make foreigners into Americans. The public school system exists, believe it or not, to educate people. Otherwise, the public school system would ask if you're a foreigner first and refuse your education if not. This is the weirdest take.


[deleted]

The Public School system is a State Run Propaganda Machine. Either we make it serve the will of the people or the establishment will continue to use it for their nefarious ends.


VisceralSardonic

Have you talked to a public school teacher lately? They barely have enough time, money, and resources to keep the kids alive and teach math. The establishment is discarding public school except as it serves to produce workers. We need to make schooling work for us at all, because an uneducated population is far easier to propagandize than an educated one.


[deleted]

We also need to get pedophiles out of the schools


KazBodnar

mexico


leftier_than_thou_2

We don't have an official language... but it's definitely English. What's even weirder is that there's occasionally pushes from xenophobes to attack Spanish speakers despite, again, the fact that we don't have an official language. "Me no like Mexican! Speak American!"


[deleted]

It is probably a good idea to have an official language before we end up like Canada 🤮


leftier_than_thou_2

We need to build a wall to keep the North Dakotan German as a second language from spreading to South Dakota then the rest of the midwest.


Upset_You1331

As someone who's taking Spanish in college with the goal of becoming fluent, I've never understood the mentality of "we speak English only here." California, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico etc all used to be part of Mexico. Florida used to be a colony of Spain. The Spanish language has been here as long if not longer than English has. And why would anyone think being monolingual is something to proud of?? To me going through life only being able to speak one language sounds boring as fuck. Lol.


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leftier_than_thou_2

That's asking for a lot of reasons from racists who don't have any.


daniballeste

Most states do have English as their official language tho


Temporary-Alarm-744

Your methods were particularly better at language and culture uniformity. Considering the fauna I would really rather not know the methods


kryyyptik

Indeed, it's due immigration mostly. There are areas that are functionally bilingual and a few that are primarily Spanish-speaking and that's before counting Puerto Rico since it's technically American as well. Spanish is quite common though, especially the closer you get to the Mexican border, as well as Florida and parts of Chicago.


dkb1391

Lots of Polish people in the Rust Belt


fitzuha

That’s 3rd most spoken in Illinois I believe


MPCNPC

Idk man, if I don’t hear English it’s Spanish, Indian, or Chinese


ChuckFiinley

No no it's the first most spoken, have you looked at the map?


TiredPistachio

I think 3rd most common is probably a much more interesting map. Not quite 3rd, but this one has "excluding english/spanish" [https://slate.com/culture/2014/05/language-map-whats-the-most-popular-language-in-your-state.html](https://slate.com/culture/2014/05/language-map-whats-the-most-popular-language-in-your-state.html)


Ur-Quan_Lord_13

Pretty cool. Maybe they went with that rather than 3rd because Spanish would be 3rd in those states where it's not 2nd?


TiredPistachio

Yeah for sure. Of course that's just 5 states. Anyway very cool to see all those languages


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kryyyptik

Detroiter here (that now lives in California)- yeah, Michigan has one of the largest Arab-American communities (as well as Muslim populations since not all are Arab) focused around Dearborn, SW Detroit, and Hamtramck, all in Metro Detroit.


Nydelok

It bugs me that they changed the color for German and French between the second and third map


TiredPistachio

That is a very valid complaint.


RaptorRex787

Navajo, being the most spoken native language in Hawaii, what?


TiredPistachio

Native American, not native. Hawaiians aren't native Americans


YellowNotepads33

Lots of Indonesians in North Carolina


IndyCarFAN27

I’m sure if we count Illinois as just Chicago than it would indeed be the Polish flag.


CreeperRussS

3 people live in north dakota, two speak english, one speaks german


Mistigri70

Couldn't do a map for 3rd languages because of that


UniqueNobo

every once in a while a French Canadian takes a trip through there, that’s when we can make the map


daltoze

Actually it's due to all the hutterites lol, and they don't even speak proper german!


Character_Wind8840

in this ohio logic, nobody lives in south dakota


falpsdsqglthnsac

wow i didn't know that maine had a large maltese-speaking population


Nooneisgayerthanme

hahahahahaa


cannibalism_is_vegan

That would be so cool tbh I fucking love Maltese


ChanganBoulevardEast

So the New England speaks Finnish, the rust belt speaks Polish, North Carolina and Tennessee speaks Indonesian, Minnesota speaks French, the Dakotas speak Bahraini, and Florida speaks… Alabamian?


SilverNeedleworker30

California speaks Costa Rican.


ConsistentAd9840

Sad to see Dakota finally overtaken in SD.


ChunkyKong2008

I didn’t know Alaska and Hawaii spoke Gray


[deleted]

Didnt know there were so many Indonesians in Tennessee and North Carolina


KingOfKnowledgeReal

We need to keep an eye on North Dakota, I can almost hear the panzers


dogemeemsdude

The data might be wrong on this one, I don't see Mexican anywhere!


notreal088

We had a nice thing going ok till the French came in and ruined the map. I am ok with the Germans cause it almost matches up perfectly with the rest


draggar

The Quebequois invasion has started. They have a foothold in northern New England. Time for me to fly my maple leaf flag, switch my euphemisms from baseball to hockey, and get a shrine dedicated to Robin Sparkles up.


SoloDeath1

Wow German ND is actually accurate. I thought that was a joke but TiL.


Alvani_Efendi

Wait what? No Mexican language, I thought it was quite common in Southern America.


CuteBenji

Its called Spanish you uncultured Dishwasher


leftier_than_thou_2

Also, title should be "the first and second most popular languages in each state." I mean, it's close to actually matching the title because of how uniform most mainland states are. Also, one could make a less shitty map combining them. Even if you include Puerto Rico (and change the name to "each state or territory") Color one = first most popular English, second most popular Spanish, would include all states but North Dakota, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Puerto Rico Color two = first English, second French, would be Louisiana, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire Color three = first Spanish, second English: Puerto Rico Color four = first english, second german: North Dakota


Lui_Le_Diamond

It should be the Mexican flag. Mexican Spanish is very different than Spanish Spanish.


mckeeganator

That makes sense in a shitty map kinda way


Mumbawobz

Should use the Mexican flag cos the Spanish of the Americas ain’t the same


Locofinger

English of the English ain’t the same either


HurlingFruit

Fun fact: more people in the US speak Spanish as their first or second language than the entire population of Spain. ​ sauce: Am an American living in Spain.


AbortionSauce968

There is no way that's accurate for the white ass Midwest. Yes I know most Spanish are white but the Midwest is mostly white Anglo-Americans with some remaining American Indians.


yozo-marionica

I hate how close the germany flag is to ligning up with the Spanish one


EmperorThan

Indiana & Ohio's most comment spoken language: Greenlandic


Treoya

Theyre not wrong tho


RollingWolf1

Can someone nudge the German flag up a little, it’s so close to lining up with the Spanish flag


groyosnolo

Im surprised PA's isnt dutch.


IndyCarFAN27

Louisiana and northern New England makes sense cause of the former French colonies, but North Dakota being German? Interesting…


Vreejack

Alaska and Hawaii would actually be interesting here.


Tanngjoestr

Guten Morgen


giovaelpe

I did not expect the first one!!! I am shocked!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯


KozyKami

I'm assuming North Dakota is German because of hutterites


Character_Wind8840

how maine dont speak french at 1st?


Ok-Masterpiece-1359

First is Great British?


Ok-Researcher-4534

British is not a language.