Where each state's immigrant population was born

[packman]

comparison between 1910 and 2010:

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[frazzled]

1. And?

It looks like 7/8 of the immigrant population came from Western Europe in 1910.* And 7/8 is coming from Mexico in 2010. Essentially, what this map is telling us is that large waves of people tend to come from one geographic area at any given time.

My family came to the US in the years just after 1910, but from Eastern Europe.


*(Germany, UK, Austria, Italy, Ireland)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. My mother and grandmother got here in 1919 to steal American jobs.

My grandmother started from Ireland, then England, then Canada, then California.

And, yes, there were Americans back then who wouldn't scrub floors and toilets for low wages and jobs were plentiful for immigrants.

[Jamaal510]

3. Given Mexico's proximity

to the U.S., I'm not surprised at 2010's numbers, but what I found interesting was that there aren't nearly as many native Canadians here.