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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Also, in some ways the Puerto Rican population map for some reason seems to be similar to the Jewish population trend in the 20th century with NYC and its metro as the gateway (among the earliest "immigrants") as well as to places in the Great Lakes like Cleveland and Chicago, with a later rise in population to Florida (especially internal migration from NYC moving outward).
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Postwar Puerto Rican migrants to NYC often worked in the garment industry, replacing Jews.
And the Bronx, probably the most Jewish place on earth in the 1940's, filled with garmentos, then became the most Puerto Rican place on earth outside of PR. Almost all the former Jewish neighborhoods transitioned to Puerto Rican (and are now transitioning to Dominican, Mexican and West African, especially in West Bronx).
One unfortunate difference is that PRs haven't had the same incredible education-centered upward economic mobility.