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Originally Posted by Capsicum
The Puerto Rican presence still is there west of I-95 in many places in the northeast though. Between Cleveland and NYC/the east coast, there's still the presence in upstate NY and parts of PA still inland from the coast too.
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I never said that Puerto Rican populations don’t exist off of I-95, just that Mexican populations really don’t exist ON I-95 outside of NYC whereas they are ubiquitous in major cities off of I-95, even in the east (Atlanta, Tampa, etc).
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
Where Latinos exist, they are largely a mix between Mexican and another group or just outright Mexican, in any city that is not on the I-95 corridor:
All major non-western cities that are not on the I-95 corridor:
Atlanta: Mexican, Central American particularly El Salvadoreno, and Caribbean
Cleveland: Puerto Rican and Mexican
Chicago: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Brazilian, others
Milwaukee: Mexican
Indianapolis: Mexican
Columbus: Mexican and Puerto Rican
Detroit: Mexican (huge dating back to the 20s and 40s, one of the hardest hit by forced repatriation during the 20s and 30s)
Minneapolis: Mexican and Ecuadorian
Kansas City: Mexican and Central American, particularly Guatemalan and El Salvadoreno
Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Cincinnati have negligible Hispanic/Latino populations.
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Milwaukee also has a Puerto Rican population. All Latino groups have many pockets across space, I just find it intriguing that for Mexican Americans in particular I-95 seems to be a very important boundary:
On I-95: not many Mexican Americans, save for NYC; off I-95: Mexican Americans (with or without other Western Hemisphere Romance language minority groups).