There's an interactive map in the NY Times today that is really cool and interesting. It show immigration patterns in the US from 1880 to 2000.
For example, did you realize Maine has had a steady influx of Canadians for more than 100 years? The south only became a major destination for immigrants in the 1960s, attracting people from Latin America. The major immigration pattern before then was Eastern and Western Europeans arriving on the East Coast across the Upper Midwest.
Hey! I saw that graphic this morning, too, and was really intrigued. I'm trying to find a way to work it into one of my classes, though it's not really on topic for either.
ReplyDeleteI like how Brooklyn, NY, in 1910, just after my great-grandparents got there, had 660K immigrants out of 2M ppl [also interesting that in 1880, Brooklyn was 188K foreign born out of 600K total - fast growth!]. Compare that with Guilford County, NC, our current residence, where in 1910 there were only 348 foreign-born ppl out of a total of 79K.
Hmmmm. Actually, in 1910 my g-grandparents were still on the lower east side of Manhattan, and there we find of the 2.29M population, 930K immigrants, of which 196K were from dear old Mother Russia.
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