"Michael G. Koerner" wrote in
news:TqCdnQFbpbNmjdDZRVn-tw@athenet.net:
> Aaron Kuperman wrote:
>> New York (1789, much still Dutch speaking)
Nothing like a majority. Apparently 3.1 percent of the total white US
population was of Dutch ancestry in 1790.
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jmahoney/lec09net.htm Even assuming that they were
all in New York (which of course they weren't) and that everyone of Dutch
ancestry spoke Dutch (which of course they didn't) this makes it impossible
for New York (which had about 8.66 percent of the total US population in
1790 [1]) to have anything remotely close to a Dutch-speaking majority.
Even if you add other non-English speaking groups I doubt that there was a
non-English speaking majority in New York--Germans for example were far less
numerous than in Pennsylvania.
[1] 340,120 out of a total US populaton of 3,929,214.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004986.html
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