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Flemish people also emigrated at the end of the fifteenth century, when Flemish traders conducted intensive trade with Spain and Portugal, and from there moved to colonies in America and Africa. [28] The newly discovered Azores were populated by 2,000 Flemish people from 1460 onwards, making these volcanic islands known as the "Flemish Islands".
For example, English has about 450 million native speakers but, depending on the criterion chosen, can be said to have as many as two billion speakers. [4] There are also difficulties in obtaining reliable counts of speakers, which vary over time because of population change and language shift.
The 2009-2013 survey estimated 141,580 people of 5 years and over to speak Dutch at home, [3] which was equal to 0.0486% of the total population of the United States. In 2021, 95.3% of the total Dutch American population of 5 years and over only spoke English at home. [5]
An estimated 141,580 people, or 0.0486%, [113] in the United States still speak the Dutch language, including its Flemish variant, at home as of 2013. This is in addition to the 23,010 and 510 speakers, respectively, of the Afrikaans and West-Frisian languages, both closely related to Dutch. [ 113 ]
The term net domestic migration describes the total number of people moving to a state from another state minus people moving to another state from that state ...
Here's the homeownership rate for the second quarter of 2017 in each state and DC: homeownership state map q2 2017 Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from US Census Bureau
In 1893, State law was passed requiring all public schools to teach exclusively in English. [11] In 1925, it was made a criminal offense to give instruction in Spanish in Public schools, this law was amended in 1927 to allow Spanish instruction in Elementary schools located in counties bordering Mexico with at least one city of 5,000 population ...
Starr County, with a population of nearly 66,000 people, had served as a key support for Democrats, with Biden winning the county in 2020 with 52% of the vote, and Hillary Clinton with 79% in 2016.