Why does Ohio have such a small Hispanic population compared to other Midwest states? (Dayton: agricultural, move to)

[msgsing]

I used to live in Powell just outside Columbus. No Hispanics that I recall but beyond that we had a really diverse population. My neighbor on one side was from India, on the other side a family from Japan. The Dad worked at the local Honda plant. Also a family from the Philippines down the street. I think maybe some Hispanics on the West side ? But it’s been years since I lived in Ohio.

[SkyLark2019]

Ohio has been losing population for a long time. (Lack of jobs.)

Back in the day I had several friends from there and all agreed, they wanted to leave the state and experience more liberal places.

IIRC only one moved back to the region.

Hispanics like living near their own, the culture tends to be warm. There are many Hispanic people in Chicago, even though it's brutally cold there in the winter.

Just saying. People stay where they enjoy their gainful employment.

[Doughboy1918]

Originally Posted by SkyLark2019

Ohio has been losing population for a long time. (Lack of jobs.)

Back in the day I had several friends from there and all agreed, they wanted to leave the state and experience more liberal places.

IIRC only one moved back to the region.

Hispanics like living near their own, the culture tends to be warm. There are many Hispanic people in Chicago, even though it's brutally cold there in the winter.

Just saying. People stay where they enjoy their gainful employment.

Why don’t they move to Yellow Springs near Dayton, I heard that’s renowned for being a very liberal small town.

[SkyLark2019]

Originally Posted by Doughboy1918

Why don’t they move to Yellow Springs near Dayton, I heard that’s renowned for being a very liberal small town.

Thank you for sharing that.


A friend of mine in Ohio had a child with a Latin American man but he went back home and she raised her child on her own. So Latinos are among you, you might not realize it yet lol.

[ohio_peasant]

Originally Posted by Doughboy1918

Why don’t they move to Yellow Springs near Dayton, I heard that’s renowned for being a very liberal small town.

Yellow Springs is tiny... however culturally/socially liberal it might be, it's surrounded by Greene County, which is the antithesis of liberalism.

As for why there's not much of a Hispanic population in that part of the state, the answer is, that employment is dominated by fed-med-ed. The "fed" part almost invariably mandates US citizenship, and is very much a "heartland" culture that's unwelcoming to newcomers or persons of a, how shall we put it, diverse background. The "med" part could in principle be multicultural, but unlike in say Los Angeles, where so many of the nurses are Filipino or other Asian ethnicities, or Hispanic, in the Dayton area, they're... not. The "ed" part is represented by all sorts of folks from the Eastern Hemisphere, but not so much from Latin America.

[KathrynAragon]

All I can say is bring it on - I am moving from Texas to Ohio in a few months (2024) and one thing I will really miss is the many Hispanics in the area. Oh, and the food - OMG. But I think y'all have good food too - just different types.

[Doughboy1918]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

All I can say is bring it on - I am moving from Texas to Ohio in a few months (2024) and one thing I will really miss is the many Hispanics in the area. Oh, and the food - OMG. But I think y'all have good food too - just different types.

Where in Ohio?

[msgsing]

Well I lived in Columbus Ohio nearly fifteen years ago. There was a significant Hispanic population on the West side. And in the Northwest where I lived a community from India. In my own immediate neighborhood we had people from Japan who worked at a nearby Honda factory.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by Doughboy1918

Where in Ohio?

Somewhere between Dayton and Cincinnati!

[Doughboy1918]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Somewhere between Dayton and Cincinnati!

Hamilton, Middletown, Lebanon, Centerville, Miamisburg?