Darn, everybody beat me to mentioning Mexico City. But Los Angeles is well on its way to becoming a Spanish-speaking city.

Well into Colorado signage is bi-lingual English/Spanish. I met lots of clerks (of all races/visible ethnic persuasions) who spoke passable Spanish in Denver.

I have family in Mexico so the post about English speaking Mexicans made me smile. Any sensible middle/upper middle class family sends its kids off for all the foreign language experience it can afford. In my family it's German as well as English, but that's maybe because of their partial German heritage. Lots of German/French/English Mexicans as well as the more familiar mixes.

Miami IS well over 50% spanish speaking. At least it was when I lived there in the early 90s. I believe the percentage at the time was 53% spanish and growing, not to mention a substantial Brazilian population (Portugese). I would imagine it will continue as such.

-megan

Even if you disregard Mexico (which I don't) Havana is also part of North America. And, if current trends continue, Miami will also be a majority spanish-speaking city RSN.

Awww, beat me to it!!

Central America is that bit that connects North America and South America, and Mexico is definately North America. The office parks, malls, all the nicer bits of Mexico City look more like Silicon Valley than anywhere else! And English is most certainly a minority language there, needed a translator when doing work for some large clients there a couple of years ago (you can judge very reliably how far up the management hierarchy someone is in Mexico by how good their English is... it was positively eerie, but not too shocking once I though about it).

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I always considered Mexico to be in Central America.

Semantics aside, Montreal's a great city. I'll be living there for a short while this summer, mostly to revel in the strangeness of an European culture inside Canamerica.

"It's so special because it's the only major city in North America where English is a minority language," says Boberg.

I guess Mexico City, North America's most populous city, isn't considered a "major city". Curious, that.