What's also interesting is the absence of Puerto Ricans in Detroit, given that they have sizable numbers in Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee.
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Puerto Rican emigration (from the island) was clearly going strong when Detroit was at its peak prosperity so it does raise the issue of why they didn't choose Detroit over the other Midwestern cities like Chicago, alongside the east coast strongholds (like NYC). There were at least some Mexican workers early in the 20th century so clearly some Hispanics were there for jobs. |
Hispanic immigration among the three major groups tends to correlate with economic industry:
Mexicans: manufacturing and farm labor Puerto Rican: garment, service, and entertainment industries Cuban: historically wealthy individuals who decamped en masse for more cosmopolitan destinations in wave 1 then very poor individuals in wave 2 who went where the wealthy had previously |
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PRs and Dominicans live alongside more with Blacks (many do have African ancestry), much more than Mexicans do in US cities. Cubans are mostly white and accepted as such, and have a higher socioeconomic status. In the South outside Florida Hispanics are very recent (it was pretty much Black and White until 1990 or so) and mostly Mexican. In the DC/Baltimore area Salvadorans are the largest group by far. |
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Something to think about. |
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Puerto Rican: 91,476 Mexican: 65,578 Cuban: 65,451 Colombian: 14,926 Dominican: 13,112 |
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Puerto Ricans are the largest Hispanic group in Flordia outside the Miami area. Orlando is 14% Puerto Rican.
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Cuban: 1,213,438 (~850k are in Miami-Dade, ~1 million in Miami metro) Puerto Rican: 847,550 Mexican: 629,718 Colombian: 300,414 Nicaraguan: 135,143 Honduran: 107,302 Venezuelan: 102,116 Peruvian: 100,965 Compared to a Western state. here is California. Much more monolithic: Mexican: 11,423,146 Salvadoran: 573,956 Guatemalan: 332,737 Puerto Rican: 189,945 Nicaraguan: 100,790 (Spaniard: 142,194) |
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currently, for latinos cle proper still sees more from pr, and lately central america, than mexico. otoh, columbus is very funny to me. when i lived there, not 'that' long ago, you could literally count the mexicans who lived there on one hand. nowadays of course, columbus is a-booming and gets most of the immigration in the state, pathetic as that is overall. the largest mex population in the state is in nw ohio in the summer when the seasonal farm workers come. i have no idea how much trump has blown up that up these days. some of those folks ended up staying around in toledo, becoming legal citizens and working at the jeep factory and the like. i used to know a few people. |
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Chicago is home to people like Sandra Cisneros, has a high school named after Benito Juarez, has the National Museum of Mexican Art (which, according to Wikipedia, is the only Latino museum accredited by the American Alliance of Museums) - and at nearly 40 years old has lasted longer than most other Mexican or Mexican-American museums in the United States. Mexican culture here has also corrupted hot dogs with a so-called "mother-in-law" that is like creating a chili-dog out of a tamale in place of a frank. Speaking of food, Chicago doesn't just offer "Mexican restaurants," but restaurants specializing in distinctly regional Mexican cuisines. One the food manufacturing side of things, La Preferida and Milagros started in Chicago and are now national brands. There's no denying that the Southwest has a greater influence on Mexican-American culture both by virtue of being adjacent to the motherland, and by having had either completely dominant or strong plurality of Mexican and Mexican-American populations for centuries. But as far as contemporary influences go, Chicago holds its own and has a lot to offer to both Latin Americans specifically of Mexican heritage and other Latin Americans, too. |
I think a lot of people underestimate Chicago’s diversity. It may not be at the level of NYC or LA, but it’s there, and is in the top 5 at least.
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Houston is by far the most diverse: even-ish split between whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, with great diversity within the Latino and Asian populations.
Beneath that, NYC, LA, the Bay Area, and Chicago are all clearly above every other city in the United States on the diversity front. Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Detroit, Phoenix, Boston, D.C., Denver and others - while still being relatively diverse - are all noticeably less diverse with notable specific minority group absences. |
Houston is not more diverse than NYC or L.A.
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