According to new information released by the US Census Bureau, 74 percent of all households in El Paso, TX, speak Spanish as their primary language at home, even if they're fluent in English. That number is coupled with the fact that one out of every five residents of Texas, Arizona, California, and New Mexico speak Spanish at home too.
One home-Spanish-speaker says, "Spanish was my first language and it's the language that my parents speak, so I just use it when I'm there.
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