I recognize that not every State is like my home State of Vermont. where the majority of residents speak English. Even in my State. however. there are many families who first came to America speaking only French. My parentsinlaw became proud American citizens. They spoke French at home. and that was the first language of my wife. My grandparents emigrated from Italy speaking Italian. That was the first language of my mother until she went to school. We are proud of that. In prior generations. we welcomed large groups of Irish. Italians. Eastern Europeans. and in recent years. immigrants and refugees from Africa. Asia and many other parts of the world. I wish my French was better.
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