The languages of the U.S., in many maps & more on maps!

I love cartography, maps, all kinds of maps, and especially old maps. This map was published in the Washington Post this week, and it is interesting, but it is also old data. It is from the Sunlight Foundation and they published it on 28FEB13. I knew there had to be more up to date information available and found the MLA Language Map using data from 2010. Click the links to check out all the maps and sites and enjoy learning about the diversity that makes our country so great! The land of maps link is very cool!

The languages of the U.S. — in one map

Posted by Chris Cillizza 

The Fix is (mildly) obsessed with maps — always have been — particularly ones that tell us something interesting about the country and its politics.

That’s why the map below, which details the leading languages, other than English, spoken in the home in each county across the country, is so fascinating. Who knew that Italian was so popular in a county in southeastern Montana? Or that French was so prevalent in all of Maine? Or that Scandanavian (Norwegian, Swedish etc.) was the prevalent second language in the northernmost points of North Dakota and Minnesota? The map serves as (yet another) reminder that most of all politics is (still) local.

The map comes courtesy of our friends at the Sunlight Foundation. (Click the map to see a bigger image on their site.)

http://sunlightcities.tumblr.com/post/44063197938/the-country-is-a-mosaic-of-languages-map-by
http://arcgis.mla.org/mla/default.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/03/07/the-languages-of-the-u-s-in-one-map/
http://landofmaps.com/