A look at the foreign-born

Posted at 12:18 PM on December 2, 2011 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)
Filed under: Race

This is an interesting map the Census Bureau provided today showing the foreign-born population as a percentage of each state's population in 1970.

This is the same report in the 2010 Census:

Minnesota went from about 2.6% to over 7%.

Demographers Elizabeth Grieco and Rob Margetta were on C-SPAN today, with Grieco bringing up an interesting point: The percentage of the population that is foreign-born is lower than during the period of "the great migration."

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Comments (2)

Send 'em all back where they came from! ( Any way you can start with my wife and daughter? :-)

Posted by Jim Shapiro | December 2, 2011 12:44 PM

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Not to be a jerk, I was just wondering if there would be parallels between the % increases in foreign-born and the list of best states recently released.

Posted by The Big Dog | December 2, 2011 1:19 PM

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