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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Foreign-born population in the tri-county today is about the same size as Detroit's foreign-born in 1930. However, the total tri-county population is roughly 3x the population of Detroit in 1930.
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Well, yeah. Metropolitan America in 1930 was very heavily white Catholic and immigrant or second generation. The WASPs were already in deep retreat. Detroit, with its then-incredible wages and innovation, was a huge immigrant draw. It was Silicon Valley.