... Hispanic USA 248,709,873 22, 354 , 059 New Mexico 1 ,51 5,069 57 9,224 Texas 16,986 ,51 0 4,339,9 05 California 29,760,021 7 ,55 7 ,55 0 Arizona 3,6 65, 228 688,338 Colorado 3,294,394 424,302 TOTAL 55 ,221,222 13 ,58 9,319 ... configurations by learning other languages and dialects, to help the USA become linguistically competent and culturally sensitive Latinos in the Northeast are doing their part by learning the varieties ... corn’) The in uence of the Spanish and English languages on each other in the Southwest, on the other hand, is a continuous reality, although the direction of the in uence has changed: in the early...