Warsie
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Weren't parts of the USA originally Swedish colonies? I could think of Maryland, but that's about it.
Those, and regions of the upper midwest were settled with Swedish. Michigan was mainly settled by Finnish originally.
New Mexico has the only bilingual constitution in the US, Spanish and English, any ways thats more or less what I'm looking for in the US, many states with 20% or more of non-English speakers
California originally had bilingual in the constitution after being conquered and annexed by the USA but the (US) whites got rid of spanish. they might return it now.
Traditionally French-speaking areas like Louisiana and parts of northern New England could retain their French.
Souther Louisiana still DOES speak French as do a lot of those in New England as you mention.
Or you could do some sort of Southern slave-wank and create a large population of free blacks speaking a creolized dialect of English, sort of like Gullah but with way bigger numbers.
That already exists; it's called 'Ebonics' and the more 'creole' slave speak is not intelligible to white people who dont have some knowledge. I'd say ebonics spoken by younger blacks has more 'foreign' words and vocabulary. e.g. "swagga"/"Swag" (yes its a recycled word). I don't think older blacks used the term 'hit you up' or 'a'ight' either (lol @ the thought of my grandparents doing that.....
You need enough people that use this as their primary language that they can't be ignored. For example, businesses in New Mexico pretty much have to employ at least some people who can speak Spanish; it's an economic necessity. Cajun French in Louisiana? Not so much.
80% of black amerixc speaks at least some Ebonics and black america has a population of 40 millions yet there isn't mandated ebonics classes. Closest thing are some linguistic courses on ebonics in some universities...
EDIT: damn typoes. my browser is freezing up