This is kind of fascinating, watching it state by state over time, seeing the waves from China and Ireland, Italy, and Germany (and, of course, Mexico).
It's also a bit amusing — who would have thought that there were so many immigrants from the Philippines to Alaska in recent years? Norway and Canada, sure, but the Philippines?
Some of that is small numbers. I would imagine foreign immigration to Alaska is fairly small; a few families (and the friends they beckoned) could tip those numbers pretty quickly.
The Russians / former USSR folk in Colorado in the mid-20th Century is another one I wouldn't have expected.
Anyway, fun stuff.
Originally shared by +Pew Research Center:
From Germany to Mexico: How America’s source of immigrants has changed over a century http://pewrsr.ch/1Lgegfm
The Irish famine in the 1840s is why so many Irish arrived. The population of Ireland was reduced from 10 million to 4 million in about 4 years. Many died, but the rest took the long, one way journey to America. The population of Ireland has still never grown past 4 million, even now.
Interesting post! Thank you, Dave! 🙂
+Paul Scollon Yup. A major wave of immigration (and nativistic prejudice against those drunken, fighting, and, worst of all, Catholic) Irish. [https://hill-kleerup.org/blog/2015/08/07/no-irish-need-apply-did-apply.html]
What brought on the Chinese immigration to Mississippi, of all things?!?!?!
And I really want to know how Ethiopia in…is that Nebraska? happened.
I had heard that the department of immigration now somewhat scatters (legal) immigrants over the USA to prevent huge population clusters and larger drains on local services. I tutored a woman from Vietnam, for example, who was started by the USA in Mississippi when she arrived.
+Gretchen Sher For the Ethiopians in Nebraska (and the Vietnamese popping up here and there), my guess is that it was refugees being settled in a few areas (or an earlier group beckoning to a later one).
Not sure about the Chinese in Mississippi in the 1950s.
The state that was marked Ethiopia is actually South Dakota and NOT Nebraska.
And you know I said SD first, and then erased it cause I thought I was WRONG.
My grasp of midwest geography is not what it was when I was still in school.
That Canada was a major immigration source into Washington and Oregon definitely explains a few things.
+Patrick Bick It's hard to tell, just from the map, though, what the proportions are of immigrants to internal movement, esp. in later days.