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HISTORY Mass Bulgarian immigration to the United States began sometime in the second part of the 19th century. Chicago was a good example of a city known through the years for being inhabited by a significant number Bulgarians compared to other cities. There was a book written by a Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov called '' To Chicago And Back '' ( Bulgarian :"До Чикаго и назад") from that period. The United States has one of the highest numbers of Bulgarians than any country in the world. As many as 250,000 1 Bulgarians live in the US. From the Eastern European countries, Bulgaria has the second highest number of students who study in the United States, after Russia . They are generally well educated and come from middle and upper-middle class families, looking for new or better opportunites. DEMOGRAPHICS There might be as many as 250,000 Bulgarians in the United States at the present time, according to 2004 estimates of the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad. The United States Census Of 2000 shows that there were 63,000 people of Bulgarian descent in the US. According to the same source, the state with the largest number of Bulgarians is California , followed by Illinois , New York , Florida , and Ohio . The cities with highest numbers of Bulgarian Americans are New York , Los Angeles , Chicago and Miami . 17% of Bulgarian Americans hold a bachelor's degree or higher Bulgarian Americans have an annual median household income of $44,578 [http://www.ethnicusa.com/markets/bulgarian.shtml/ . 28 % of Bulgarian Americans are married with children under the age of 18 [http://www.ethnicusa.com/markets/bulgarian.shtml/]. LANGUAGE According to the 22nd US Census, 28,565 people indicated that they speak Bulgarian at home in 2000 . Some Bulgarian Americans speak Bulgarian, especially the more recent immigrants, while others might not speak the language at all, or speak Bulgarian mixed with English to a lesser or greater extent. Some Bulgarian Americans understand Bulgarian even though they might not be able to speak the language. There are cases where older generations of Bulgarians or descendants of Bulgarian immigrants from the early part of the 20th century are fluent in the Bulgarian language as well. FAMOUS BULGARIAN AMERICANS
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