Here’s Kurt Bauman’s email: Kurt.J.Bauman@census.gov. He will welcome your comments.

Dear Professor Brueggemann,

I write as the MLA staff member responsible for the Language Map. We want to include ASL on the map. The only reason that we do not include ASL is that the map reports data […]

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It’s difficult to track immigrant languages in the US across time because the Census changed the question it asked about language use throughout the 20th century. Questions were asked about mother tongue, then […]