from Hacker News

How the origins of America's immigrants have changed since 1850

by Nevin1901 on 7/23/24, 12:00 PM with 4 comments

• by woodruffw on 7/23/24, 1:23 PM

  This is the first percentage-over-decade overview I’ve seen; it’s interesting to learn that the US’s immigrant makeup was higher for over 50 years (1870s-1920s) than it is currently.

  Demographically, it’s worth noting that Pew is dealing with a pretty limited source of data: “German” was a generic bucket for all kinds of nations and ethnic groups that we now consider distinct, but were bucketed together because of Prussia, Austria-Hungary, etc. By modern standards this would be like the US identifying Guatemalans as “Mexican” due to the former’s proximity to the latter.

• by tharmas on 7/23/24, 4:20 PM

  Mexican immigration slowed because the economy there has improved. And the economy has improved partly because of US investment there.