Inquiry: Heritage communities on a state-by-state basis

[Scott McGinnis]

Responses may be posted to this list or sent directly to the inquiry
originator, David Goldberg, at DGoldberg at mla.org -- this is a follow-up
question to David's original posting of 4 December.


Do you know who teaches an overview of languages in US that might
direct me to resources? A map is not the main thing, though it would have
been nice. What we need is a source of information about language
communities such as offered by the census from 1990 (not yet available for
2000 census) that spells out by state (by city would be better) where the
various language communities in the US are (e.g., East Lansing: Arabic;
Brooklyn: Yiddish; Lafayette, LA: Cajun; etc, etc.) Do you have any idea
who works in this area?

Thanks for your consideration,
David