Topic #4-Languages as Maps

This map above shows the distribution of Chinese language across the lower forty-eight states. It looks like more than I anticipated but then it also tells you the over all percentage and it is only .77% of people in the United States. I was surprised by the greater concentration around the Denver area. Granted it was not as highly concentrated as the coasts, but still I originally thought the only area would be on the western coast. Is Denver just a small hub for transport between coasts or is there some other reason that that area has a greater concentration than the rest of the middle of the US.



This map shows the distribution of German spoken in Nebraska. I choose these settings because I was once told that Concordia was originally labeled as a German school, so I wondered how many Germans had remained in the area. The distribution does agree with my knowledge that around Seward there is a higher concentration of German spoken, but overall not much German is spoken anymore. The percentage of German spoken is only .56% in Nebraska.



This map is still using the German language, but this time I looked at Wisconsin. I had anticipated a greater number in this state instead of Nebraska, and I was right with an overall 0.96% of Wisconsin's population speaking German. It seems that the lower half of the state has a greater concentration than the top half. Are there more people concentrated in the lower half to begin with? Or, is this a because of how the Germans migrated and they choose to settle in the lower half of the state.



This shows the Western slope of Colorado's distribution of the Spanish language. I do think that these concentration difference are due to overall population present in those counties because it matches pretty well. Also the areas of lower concentration have less agricultural of oil industries that use Spanish speaking people for work. I am not saying that they do find other work, but typically that is where you see them. The overall percentage of Spanish for this area was 10%.