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« on: June 21, 2007, 11:46:32 PM »

I type up business forms at my work, I had to do one for a place in Fall River, MA. I noticed they had two phone lines, one labeled English, the other Portuguese.

Upon looking it up, it appears Fall River is almost half ethnically Portuguese. It also has a fairly large foreign born population, almost 20%, but the vast majority of these are from Europe, not Latin America. So the Portuguese speakers aren't Brazilian.

So are there actually places in Massachusetts where people still speak Portuguese and is still have immigration from Portugal?
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I spent the winter writing songs about getting better
BRTD
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« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2007, 12:43:16 PM »

According to the Census site, 34.6% of residents in Fall River speak a language other than English as their primary language.

I'm still surprised that Portuguese Americans (as opposed to Brazilian immigrants) would still use that as their primary language. I figured they would've integrated a few generations ago.
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