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Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with "hating" Boston.
Definitely a bit of hyperbole on my part; I wouldn’t get too hung up on my exact choice of words. It’s just surprising that even metros with much less overall foreign born populations than Boston or similar negatives (cold, expensive, far from Mexico) still have large representation from the country.
I expected there to be a handful of other metros with small populations, but Boston is really an outlier here.
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So because Boston hasn't been set up as a large Mexican immigrant spot as of yet, there are just so many other places for someone from there to choose from. Its the same reason you don't see many Dominicans in Texas or California. They already have such huge communities in the Northeast and Florida to choose from.
But that’s why the two are apples and oranges. If there were large Dominican communities everywhere in the country, including Salt Lake City and Portland, but there were none in Seattle then that would be the same.
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Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with "hating" Boston. People go where their communities are. There are large Mexican communities at every corner of the US. If a Mexican was coming to the US, there are probably a lot more options that would be available.
It should also be mentioned that Mexican immigrants from different parts of Mexico settle in different parts of the US. For example, an immigrant from Durango is most likely to settle in the Chicago area, one from Jalisco or Michoacán will most likely end up in California, one from Sonora will most likely end up in Arizona, and one from San Luis Potosi or Nuevo Leon will most likely end up in Texas.
So because Boston hasn't been set up as a large Mexican immigrant spot as of yet, there are just so many other places for someone from there to choose from. Its the same reason you don't see many Dominicans in Texas or California. They already have such huge communities in the Northeast and Florida to choose from.
The path from Puebla leads to Philadelphia, and the local restaurants (and diners, as there are some Pueblans who have opened acclaimed restaurants of their own) have reaped the rewards. There's also a Dominican community here in the lower Northeast.
Yeah, I don't think it has anything to do with "hating" Boston. People go where their communities are. There are large Mexican communities at every corner of the US. If a Mexican was coming to the US, there are probably a lot more options that would be available.
It should also be mentioned that Mexican immigrants from different parts of Mexico settle in different parts of the US. For example, an immigrant from Durango is most likely to settle in the Chicago area, one from Jalisco or Michoacán will most likely end up in California, one from Sonora will most likely end up in Arizona, and one from San Luis Potosi or Nuevo Leon will most likely end up in Texas.
So because Boston hasn't been set up as a large Mexican immigrant spot as of yet, there are just so many other places for someone from there to choose from. Its the same reason you don't see many Dominicans in Texas or California. They already have such huge communities in the Northeast and Florida to choose from.
Another factor is many tend to assume connections that don't exist, e.g. one Spanish speaking community would be attracted to the same place as another Spanish speaking community. There is little in common between Dominicans and Mexicans for example, aside from mother tongue. The reasons each migrate are different as well.
The path from Puebla leads to Philadelphia, and the local restaurants (and diners, as there are some Pueblans who have opened acclaimed restaurants of their own) have reaped the rewards. There's also a Dominican community here in the lower Northeast.
I wasn't sure about PHL, but I knew a large number of the Mexicans in NYC were from Puebla.
Here are all the international groups by CSA. However, because of the discrepancy in size between the CSA's on this list, I am going to tier it. It just doesn't seem like listing all groups over 30,000 is going to work the same for NYC as it would Minneapolis for example. So here is how I'm going to lay it out:
NYC and LA will have all over 50,000 listed. The rest will have all over 30,000 listed. I raised the bar slightly because this is CSA not Urban Area or MSA. The exceptions will be San Diego and Tampa. They have no CSA, so I used 25,000 for them.
This is part of a way of trying to gage per capita diversity with sheer diversity, but even given that it has to have checks in place.
New York City/Bridgeport/Poughkeepsie - 29 Countries
Dominican Republic: 703,394
China: 469,963
India: 408,026
Mexico: 306,042
Ecuador: 287,781
Jamaica: 280,306
Colombia: 208,529
Guyana: 189,347
Haiti: 177,714
Philippines: 164,122
El Salvador: 155,217
Korea: 144,151
Bangladesh: 120,833
Peru: 117,031
Guatemala: 116,654
Poland: 113,635
Italy: 109,582
Trinidad and Tobago: 104,974
Russia: 93,660
Ukraine: 93,205
Honduras: 92,249
Brazil: 91,265
Pakistan: 84,819
United Kingdom: 83,082
Cuba: 64,710
Egypt: 58,531
Ghana: 56,569
Nigeria: 55,304
Hong Kong: 50,331
New England and Boston have little to no large-scale agricultural lands AND are far as possible from Mexico and expensive.
We base most of our immigration patterns on NYC. Mexicans didn't really get to NYC until the end of their massive waves. Boston was extremely expensive by this time, and construction jobs were union-dominated.
Korea appears to have the biggest regional diaspora among highly developed countries in the biggest US regions with large representations in NY, DC, LA, SF, Dallas, Atlanta and Seattle.
Are there really that many Japanese immigrants in California? Or are they most Japanese Americans?
These are immigrants only. I wouldn't say there are a ton. Their numbers used to be bigger. They will continue to decline as there is no benefit that isn't related to the weather for moving from Japan to the US.
These are immigrants only. I wouldn't say there are a ton. Their numbers used to be bigger. They will continue to decline as there is no benefit that isn't related to the weather for moving from Japan to the US.
That, and a declining number of Japanese people period. I'd expect Korean immigration to follow a similar fate soon, too.
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