I’d be interested in knowing the explanations for the large presence of Ethiopia, Somalia and Germany in their respective states.
Minnesota welcomed a ton of Somalians during their civil war, and having a lot of Somalis attracted more Somalis and so on!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Somalis_in_Minneapolis–Saint_Paul
Why include CA but not Mexico? Canada should have been excluded since they are a boarder country too.
I’m going to guess that if you include Mexico, pretty much every state has the same flag. Whereas you don’t have the problem by including Canada.
Canada has roughly the same HDI ranking as the US, whereas Mexico is somewhat lower. So from the “looking for a better life” perspective, Canadians don’t have an incentive to move to the US (other way around actually, from HDI).
Just a guess though.
Wrong guess. There is Germany on the list
Well yes, but so is Canada, which has a higher HDI than the US.
Parent was asking why Mexico is excluded from the list while Canada is not.
By “don’t have incentive” I’m just referring to an on-paper incentive from an HDI ranking.
Looks like Alberta has a leak that’s spilling into the USA
mildly interesting, but i’m pretty sure the size of the largest groups (not to mention the gap between the largest and next largest) are highly variable and in some cases are not particularly large at all, so, mapping only the largest one is vastly oversimplifying things and producing a rather misleading picture. (the census bureau’s data on the subject is here in case any map enthusiasts want to make more informative maps…)
Why do so many Indians live in the eastern half of the country? Is that simply because that’s where most Americans live?
But what if you included Mexico?
I’m pretty sure that would be every state, right?
Monochrome map
stares at New Mexico … Wat
New Mexico has two very big national labs. Los Alamos National Labs, and Sandia National Labs.
LANL was founded by Oppenheimer. They still do mostly “energy” work, but a ton of materials, chemistry, and weapons research.
SNL does mostly weapons, satellites, and uh… alien tech, we’ll say.
Both labs employ a lot of Germans. They’re efficient and good at science.
There are also a lot of companies that work with the laboratories, not to mention Intel and others involved in computational component manufacturing and design. The state got a lot of CHIPs act finding. So, yeah, New Mexico has a lot of hard science opportunities, and Germans tend to like hard sciences.
Chinese Massachusetts
Rich Chinese people are the only ones who can afford to migrate there.
Pleased and surprised to see Philippines so well represented but surprised it isn’t a larger asian country like Japan.
The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.
