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There are at least 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US (not counting people that learned Spanish)
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In Texas alone 29.5% of total population speaks Spanish making up 7.4 million Spanish speakers.
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In California there are 10.4 million Spanish speakers.
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There are 790,000 students enrolled at US universities learning Spanish.
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In 2050 the US will become the largest Spanish speaking country in the world.
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A majority, 60%, of second-generation Hispanic Americans speak Spanish at home.
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Hispanics have a purchase power of 1.7 trillion.
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California’s first constitution was written in Spanish then translated into English. Not anymore, though.
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Nuevo Mexico still publishes its State laws in both Spanish and English. Today, ironically, 26.9% Californians and 26.2% New Mexicans speak Spanish.
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Spanish was the first European language spoken in the modern US territory in 1565.
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Population speaking Spanish in New York is 14.1% and 12.4% in Illinois.
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Today 29.1%Texans and 19% Floridians speak Spanish.
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From 1920 to 1930 one million Mexicans migrated into the US.
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49.4% of students of foreing languages in US universities study Spanish. French is second with 12.7% of students.