• PapaStevesy
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    11 months ago

    Minnesota has a huge immigrant population and still has the second-highest rate on the map, so maybe not.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      They’re Hmong immigrants though, who are eager to assimilate into American culture, and are mostly 1st and 2nd generation Americans now.

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        11 months ago

        In 2020, about 8% of Minnesotans were foreign-born

        Page includes a chart: IMMIGRANT GROUPSORT DESCENDING POPULATION
        All immigrants 470,387
        Burmese immigrants 12,480
        Canadian immigrants 11,179
        Chinese immigrants 17,746
        Ecuadorian immigrants 6,703
        Ethiopian immigrants 22,453
        Filipino immigrants 9,936
        German immigrants 6,811
        Guatemalan immigrants 6,619
        Hmong immigrants 29,034

        I did not include the whole chart.

        I am only pushing back on the implication about the immigrants in Minnesota being only Hmong. I have no idea about literacy in any of those countries.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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          11 months ago

          Oh wow, I didn’t realize there are so many other groups. I wonder why some of them choose Minnesota of all places. I know why the Hmong are there, but Minnesota seems like an odd match for some of those other groups. At least it’s a new life experience and a change of scenery!