A look at the foreign-born

Bob CollinsBob Collins Dec 2, 2011
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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.

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This is the same report in the 2010 Census:

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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.”