As of 2000, 91 % of Delaware residents age 5 and older speak only English at home ; 5 % speak Spanish.

At various times in history, residents of Delmarva Peninsula have proposed that its Maryland and Virginia portions secede from their respective states, merging with Delaware to create a new state named Delmarva.

The current county seat of Georgetown was settled upon on January 27, 1791 after residents in western Sussex County successfully petitioned the Delaware General Assembly to move the county seat to a central location as roads at the time made it too difficult to reach the county seat in Lewes.

Ocean County is part of the New York metropolitan area, however, it is actually in the southern part of New Jersey and is home to many tourist attractions frequently visited by Delaware Valley residents, especially the beachfront communities of Seaside Heights and Long Beach Island, as well as Six Flags Great Adventure, which is the home of the world's tallest and formerly fastest roller coaster, Kingda Ka.

After being transferred to Penn, Delaware's Swedish, Dutch, and English residents used to the relaxed culture of the Restoration monarchy grew uncomfortable with the more conservative Quaker influence, so Delaware petitioned for a separate legislature, which was finally granted in 1702.

* The Highlands – located between Pennsylvania Avenue and Delaware Avenue, the Highlands neighborhood, centered on 18th Street southeast of Rockford Park, was developed by Joshua Heald in the 19th century for affluent, middle-class residents.

For most of the second half of the 20th century, the area of Long Neck was sparsely populated, except for several mobile home communities that served mostly as summer vacation properties for permanent residents of the Washington, DC, Baltimore, Maryland, Wilmington, Delaware, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metropolitan areas.

It also had the thirty-second most Jamaicans in the US, at 4. 10 % ( tied with Tamarac and Royal Palm Beach ), while it had the fifty-fourth highest percentage of Haitians, at 2. 70 % of all residents ( tied with Jewett City, Connecticut, Georgetown, Delaware and Elizabeth, NJ ).

The township is headquarters for Troop A of the New Jersey State Police, which covers over and more than 1. 7 million residents between the Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean.

Notable current and former residents of Delaware Township include:

New townhomes have been built on the GAF Manufacturing site, along the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which provide the downtown area a new modern look and many new residents.

Almost 40 % of its residents are Native American, thus Jay is home to numerous Cherokee tribal offices and a health clinic for the Delaware Disctict of the Cherokee Nation.

Discovery of oil nearby in 1904 briefly turned Delaware into a boom town with four thousand residents.

The Delaware Valley is home to extensive populations of African Americans ( over 40 % of Philadelphia's residents are black ), Europeans ( the majority of residents are white European of German, Irish, Italian and Polish descent ), Asians such as Chinese, Indian, Korean and Vietnamese, Arabs and Turks, Indians and Pakistanis, Israelis ( while American Jews form a significant ethno-religious community ), Hispanics.

However, due to strong opposition by residents and political officials, many acres of land have been preserved throughout the Delaware Valley.

The population of Delaware Township in Camden County rose explosively after World War II, growing from about 10, 000 residents in 1950 to almost 65, 000 by 1970.

The village, inhabited by Delaware ( Lenape ) and Shawnee Indians, was most likely the largest such village on the western side of the Alleghenies at the time, having an estimated 300 – 400 residents in 1756.

Following the opening of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, residents of Delaware and New Jersey began to advocate a river crossing in the Wilmington area.

Recent flooding, from Hurricane Diane, along the Delaware River kept residents along its banks alert should the storm strike, business owners were also ready to move their merchandise if the need arose.

Pennsylvania awarded the highest property tax relief to residents of the Chester-Upland School District in Delaware County at $ 632 per homestead and farmstead in 2010.

Delaware health officials have confirmed what residents near a coal-fired power plant long suspected: there is a cluster of cancer cases near the Indian River Power Plant.

Zimmer and his wife Marfy Goodspeed are longtime residents of Delaware Township in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

Delaware provides government subsidy support for the clean-up of property " lightly contaminated " by hazardous waste, the proceeds for which come from a tax on wholesale petroleum sales.

Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.

Her knowledge of support networks and resources in the border states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware was invaluable to Brown and his planners.

However, Breckinridge received almost no support in most of the Northern states ( which Lincoln swept except for split electoral votes from New Jersey going to Douglas and Lincoln ) but, as the candidate of the Buchanan faction, did outpoll Douglas in Pennsylvania and won Delaware and received some support comparable to Douglas in Connecticut.

In Delaware, spousal support is usually not awarded in marriages of less than 10 years.

Delaware, though officially remaining a member of the Union, was a border state and divided in its support of both the Confederate and the Union causes.

Shawnee war chief Blue Jacket and Delaware ( Lenape ) leader Buckongahelas, encouraged by their previous victories and the hope of continued British support, argued for a return to the Treaty of Fort Stanwix of 1768.

The New Haven Colony would not get any support from its New England patrons and Puritan Governor John Winthrop was to testify that the " Delaware Colony " " dissolved " owing to summer " sickness and mortality.

DeGette, who had had been working on the measure since 2001, enlisted the support of Representative Michael N. Castle ( Republican from Delaware ), who became DeGette's principal Republican cosponsor of the legislation.

She earned her GED in 1968 and later attended Delaware Technical and Community College, while working two jobs to support the family.

Du Pont's attempt to garner the support of President Abraham Lincoln was ignored, and he returned home to Delaware.

To support the expected increase in traffic, the wooden bridge over the Delaware River at Easton was also replaced by a double-tracked, iron bridge.

In May 1775, a group of Delaware, Mohawk and Shawnee emissaries formed a delegation which headed south to support the British who were trying to gain the help of the Cherokees and other tribes.

He visited representatives of the Delaware, Shawnee, and other tribes to secure their support, or at least neutrality, in the war with Britain.

These included an increase in judicial salaries and significant improvements in the judicial pension system, establishment of full-time Courts of Common Pleas in Kent and Sussex Counties, enduring support for the creation of the present separate Supreme Court of Delaware and extensive improvements and enlargements of the judicial facilities in both the Public Building in Wilmington and the Kent County Courthouse.

Chingachgook wanted to create a band of volunteers from all the nations of the Delaware River valley to support and protect their collective interests.

In June William Johnson traveled to the Iroquois headquarters at Onondaga, and successfully negotiated support for the British side with the Iroquois, Shawnee, and Delaware, forces that Shirley also hoped to use for his expedition.

The system is expected to support TiNy-Threads ( a threading library developed at the University of Delaware ) and POSIX Threads.

A few decades later, Professor Raymond W. Kirkbride of the University of Delaware, a French professor and World War I veteran, won support from university president Walter S. Hullihen to send students to France to study during their junior year.

The parade ground was excavated and thousands of piles were steam driven to support a foundation for a concrete three-gun battery as a way to modernize the defenses protecting ports along the Delaware River.

The justification for Delawarean as an intermediate subgroup rests upon the high degree of similarity between Mahican and the two Delaware languages, but relatively little detailed argumentation in support of Delawarean has been adduced.