This guy sees no problem at all.
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The Cape Verde Islands were probably, but not certainly, known to the Romans, and probably others before then; the might have been known to the Carthaginians.
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A few recent efforts based on the latest ACS data release last month (2019-2023), in particular Table B06001, Place of Birth by Age in the United States.
This one is a little unusual, because ACS Table B06001 counts Puerto Rico as being outside the USA, but people born there are “native”. So here you see several counties with relatively high concentrations of PR-born population, such as Osceola & neighbors (Florida), the Killeen, TX area, and Hampden County, MA (Springfield area). Other counties highlighted here are probably artifacts caused by small populations and high margins of error.
Highlights here include Queens County, NY (47.6%), Hudson County, NJ (42.6%), Santa Clara County, CA (41%), and Miami-Dade County, FL (54.3%).
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I see that “Go west, young man!” is still in effect, along with “Go to Florida, old people”, “Go to the cities, if west sounds like too far.” and also “Go to Vermont and New Hampshire, because maple syrup is tasty, I guess.”
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“…but not to California or Utah!”
As a demographics researcher, I find it fascinating how closely some characteristics follow boundaries. For example, why is Nevada so clearly outlined in the first map? Is there something about NV state laws that encourage native Nevadans to move away, or invite out-of-staters to resettle there? You might guess taxation, but NV is not one of the nine states that don’t have income tax. Its property tax rate is among the lowest in the nation, but so is Utah’s, which has a much higher percentage of “stayers”. (Of course, the Mormons affect everything in UT.)
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For Nevada, wouldnt you think its a function of a small number of counties with a large proportion of the population from out of state and living in Reno or Vegas, and this skews the data?
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That’s possible, but the first map is county-level data, including counties that are outside of Reno or Las Vegas. Probably some of it is due to low populations in very very rural areas, with high margins of error. Nevertheless, it is unusual, especially considering that right across the border in California, you have a substantially higher proportion of born-in-state population.
I’m not trying to draw any conclusions here. I’m just saying that it’s interesting how things you would think are fairly evenly distributed can be so different across political boundaries.
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this is just my perspective, but i think you’re basically right: Nevada DEFINITELY encourages people to move here (no state taxes is a huge incentive, and also the very friendly business environment, tax-wise). There’s not anything that i know of that actively encourages those born here to leave, it’s just that i think people leave to see what the rest of the country has to offer. there’s only a few larger metropolitan areas (Reno/Sparks/Carson City, and Vegas), and the rest are all small rural towns, so that’s probably the largest locally-born population. As for Utah, i agree that it’s the large Mormon population there, with their stay-at-home values, that keeps their population of native-born residents more stable. Nevada has always been pretty transient by comparison.
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Of course, lest we forget, once you’re out the front door, you’re still in the middle of the f***ing desert!
– Reuben Tishkoff
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Something else I found while poking through similar data1 is that Nevada has a relatively high proportion of foreign-born residents. In all years available in this series, NV was ranked 5th or 6th in percentage of foreign-born population.2 So I’m guessing foreign-born workers (casinos? ranches?) and their foreign-born families make up a big part of the born-elsewhere cohort. Here’s a ranked chart for 2023:
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ACS State of Residence by Place of Birth Flows, single-year data for 2010, 2013-2019, 2021-2023.
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Other states in the top 6 for these years are California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii.
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Reading this post about a historic Black town made me wonder about maps, and this one looked interesting:
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I looked for Allensworth, CA and it was there!
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