Is Tulsa seeing an influx of Californians?

[swake]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

Are people in Tulsa or OKC seeing out of state car license plates from California, but preferably not near interstates in case it only represents Californians passing through? In Stillwater, I sometimes see them from California. Texas plates are easily at no. 1, probably reflective of OSU connections with Texas. Kansas is a distant no. 2. After that it's probably California though Arkansas may be up there.

Trying to judge these things by license plates on cars is always a crapshoot because car rental companies have cars with plates from all over.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by swake

Point taken, but I would still break the growth into 3 pieces, in order:

1) In country migration, largely from neighboring states with some migration from high costs states
2) Immigrants, mostly from central Mexico, central America and S.E. Asia
3) In state migration from rural Oklahoma

These are likely accurate. I think we also have a lot of growth from our existing Hispanic/Latino community as well since they are Catholic and traditionally have large families.

I don't know enough about Tulsa to know if this is happening there but south OKC from the river to I-240 and from I-35 to I-44 is probably 70% Hispanic/Latino and higher than that in the Capitol Hill area.

[swake]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

These are likely accurate. I think we also have a lot of growth from our existing Hispanic/Latino community as well since they are Catholic and traditionally have large families.

I don't know enough about Tulsa to know if this is happening there but south OKC from the river to I-240 and from I-35 to I-44 is probably 70% Hispanic/Latino and higher than that in the Capitol Hill area.

In Tulsa the Kendall-Whitter area northeast of downtown is mostly or really nearly all Hispanic. Then far east Tulsa is a mix of Hispanic and Asian. There's another growing Asian area in south Tulsa and Jenks.