I’m saying if you’re basing your data off of English then of course states who border a country whose primary language is Spanish will have more people who cannot read/write in English. They’re more likely to have immigrants from said country. As is this post kind of implies not speaking/reading English == dumb, which is not at all true.

To be clear I’m from California, grew up speaking Spanish (even though I’m white AF), and have 0 issues with immigrants. It’s just kind of a dumb statistic to use given the diversity of the US, and our lack of an official language. A much better metric would be the percentage of people who do not have a reading level above 6th grade in any language.