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Without counting Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul definitely.... Its the one place OUTSIDE of Chicago I can hear people speaking languages other than English in the Midwest.... :P
Actually in my city (Lorain, Ohio outside of Cleveland) I hear Spanish on a daily basis.
The city is currently over 22% Hispanic, and even in 2000 it was over 21% Hispanic (way ahead of almost every Midwestern city). It has the highest Hispanic % of any city in Ohio. The story behind this is that decades ago the city didn't have enough workers for the steel mills so they offered jobs to Puerto Ricans and hundreds, then thousands were brought over from Puerto Rico to work at the mills and settled in the area and brought their families over. Now the city is home to over 70 nationalities.
I can hear spanish on the westside of Cleveland on a daily basis also. Many other languages as well but less often than Spanish.
Tulsa is far more of a Southern city, not a Midwestern one. You also left Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Cincinnati off this list.
My fault, I confused Oklahoma with a Midwest state.
Those are only the top 10 largest Midwest cities by population (new census estimates). Tulsa will be replaced by Minneapolis then.
Minneapolis-68% white, 18% black, 5% Asian, 9% other. 10% Hispanic (of any race)
Actually in my city (Lorain, Ohio outside of Cleveland) I hear Spanish on a daily basis.
The city is currently over 22% Hispanic, and even in 2000 it was over 21% Hispanic (way ahead of almost every Midwestern city). It has the highest Hispanic % of any city in Ohio. The story behind this is that decades ago the city didn't have enough workers for the steel mills so they offered jobs to Puerto Ricans and hundreds, then thousands were brought over from Puerto Rico to work at the mills and settled in the area and brought their families over. Now the city is home to over 70 nationalities.
I can hear spanish on the westside of Cleveland on a daily basis also. Many other languages as well but less often than Spanish.
That's an interesting story, because a couple of Upstate NY cities have a similar story. Dunkirk has pretty much the same exact story in terms of steel mills. In Amsterdam, it was the carpet factories and some other industries as well. Even the website for the Amsterdam School District can be read in Spanish:http://www.gasd.org/spanish/index.htm same with the Dunkirk City School District: http://translate.google.com/translat...hl=en&ie=UTF-8 Both of these small cities are about 20% Hispanic, if not a little bit more.
That's an interesting story, because a couple of Upstate NY cities have a similar story. Dunkirk has pretty much the same exact story in terms of steel mills. In Amsterdam, it was the carpet factories and some other industries as well. Even the website for the Amsterdam School District can be read in Spanish:Greater Amsterdam School District same with the Dunkirk City School District: Google Translate Both of these small cities are about 20% Hispanic, if not a little bit more.
Interesting, haven't heard of too many other places doing that. I see that Dunkirk is on Lake Erie too, I actually stopped there on my way to Buffalo a while back but I don't remember much about it. Stats look similar to Lorains except Dunkirk is a good amount more white and less black, and it's a lot smaller.
I had a conversation with somebody about that part where they didn't have enough people to fill all the jobs so they had to bring people over from Puerto Rico, and I don't see them ever doing that again, too many people looking for jobs as it is. By the way, the mills in Lorain at their peak employed 13,000 people, and now it's below 2,000. There was also a Ford Plant in the city that at it's peak employed 4,000, that's completely closed now. You can imagine what that did to the city, not good at all. Lorain at its peak had a population of 85,000 officially and 100,000 unofficially, and now it's down to 70,000 (was actually lower in 1990 and 2000).
Milwaukee is the most ethnically diverse city in the Midwest after Chicago. Just by glancing at some of the figures that have already been posted, Milwaukee's demographics appear to be more evenly distributed than the other cities and our Hispanic population also happens to be the 2nd largest (after Chicago).
Without counting Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul definitely.... Its the one place OUTSIDE of Chicago I can hear people speaking languages other than English in the Midwest.... :P
If you come to St. Louis you can hear around 50,000 Bosnian immigrants speaking Bosnian.
My fault, I confused Oklahoma with a Midwest state.
Those are only the top 10 largest Midwest cities by population (new census estimates). Tulsa will be replaced by Minneapolis then.
Minneapolis-68% white, 18% black, 5% Asian, 9% other. 10% Hispanic (of any race)
Where are you people getting these statistics?
Minneapolis (2000 Census)
White 62.7
Black or African American 17.6
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 7.6
Asian 6.3
Some other race 4.2
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.0
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.1
Here are some interesting numbers from the 2000 Census: Foreign Born Population
Chicago - 628,903
Minneapolis - St. Paul - 96,613
Columbus - 47,713
Milwaukee - 46,122
Detroit - 45,541
Indianpolis - 36,067
Wichita - 27,938
Omaha - 25,687
Tulsa - 25,665
Kansas City - 25,632
Cleveland - 21,372
Grand Rapids - 20,814
St. Louis - 19,542
Des Moines - 15,713
Cincinnati - 12,461
Here are some interesting numbers from the 2000 Census: Foreign Born Population
Chicago - 628,903
Minneapolis - St. Paul - 96,613
Columbus - 47,713
Milwaukee - 46,122
Detroit - 45,541
Indianpolis - 36,067
Wichita - 27,938
Omaha - 25,687
Tulsa - 25,665
Kansas City - 25,632
Cleveland - 21,372
Grand Rapids - 20,814
St. Louis - 19,542
Des Moines - 15,713
Cincinnati - 12,461
What isn't shown in these stats are the outlying areas of the city. Cuyahoga County where Cleveland is located within, has a higher percentage of foreign born.
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