A reader, Phillip, sent us this very interesting map. It is a little annoying to have to figure out in some cases which flag is depicted on certain states, but it is nonetheless informative. States with dominant populations of Burmese, Bhutanese, Somali, Cuban, Ethiopian, Iraqi or Vietnamese got that way through the Refugee Admissions Program since they are all major refugee-sending countries.
Somalis are dominant in Minnesota and Maine; Iraqis in Tennessee, Michigan and Idaho.
We don’t take many refugees from the Philippines, China, Dominican Republic, India or of course Canada. They get in here through other means. However, the Chinese are the largest group of asylum seekers who successfully get in.
The map makers excluded Mexico (don’t know why). And, I would have guessed the Salvadorans would dominate Maryland.
Here is where Phillip got the map, I don’t have time to examine it further, but you might.
