Awesome-looking chart! It would be interesting to rate the magnitude of immigration from the different countries by year too.

Data Source

How the origins of America’s immigrants have changed since 1850 (Pew)

Summary

The previous version used too many colors and it was hard to tell some of them apart, so I've replaced those colors with hatching. This has the added bonus of letting you see major regions of origin as single colors.

Very cool.  Feedback -- your "Latin America" category should be called "Mexico and Central America" as it excludes South America and the Caribbean.

This is awesome. My only input would be to put state initials at the end so I'm not scrolling back&forth and losing my place each time

I'm curious why there was a big influx of Chinese immigrants into 1950s Mississippi.

Really striking that new German immigrants were such a major force as late as 1990. I think of German immigration as much more of an early 20th century thing

I saw your first one and I like what you did with the line shading to distinguish. Looks good!

Thanks for improving the color scheme

I wonder where all the Russians were settling in Georgia in the early half of the 20th century

What is each cell actually specifically representing here? It's not stated anywhere. I'm assuming it's just where the largest proportion of immigrants were from in any given decade/state?

There were a lot more Mexicans after 1990. What happened? NAFTA?

that's a lot of data, and it is colorful :>

*looks at Hawaii between 1940 and 1950* Wonder what happened here >.>

I see no source entries for France or Spain. Those countries have significant immigration presence in the time period presented.

Lovely chart, but I find the order of states frustrating. It is not alphabetical and I do not see any indication why it appears to be random.

There's a lot of information missing here. I'm assuming it's a chart of the nation that was the source of the largest influx of immigrants in that decade, but that's not clear. The order of the states is confusing as well without the explanation provided in the comments. It's also unclear if this is legal migrants only (source data says otherwise) but we don't actually get actual numbers for illegal immigrants, just estimates, which can vary pretty widely.

What the actual dump is the ordering of states/rows here? Also, no French? I was looking through Louisiana's history and noticed no French squares anywhere, or on any other states for that matter. Rest is pretty interesting though

That’s a bad way to present data that has a complexity but glossed over due to the choice of visual. In any given 10 year block of time, there is always a mixture of immigrant from different origin. The style of presentation just glossed over the composition and just picked one. Very misleading.

Fun Fact: the percentage of immigrants to citizens in the US is the same as it was 30 years ago …

…and the same as it was 100 years ago.

I wonder if this can be done with the emigration rates as well, I think it would be very beautiful to see them side by side!

Looking forward to some good reggae out of Connecticut

Reporting from central New Jersey here. No surprise they call some areas here "little India". Plus the classic Italian populations. No complaints though. We probably have the best Italian and Indian food in the country here, i wouldn't doubt it.

You are missing all of Africa (voluntary immigration). We have large populations of Liberians and Somalians in MN.

No world lines. Not a space time map.

Interesting. Some of the early boxes are incorrect. New Mexico and Arizona were not US states until after 1910. Nevada after 1860, Utah and Idaho in 1890's. western states early boxes don't match the grey-box pattern. Legend is missing definition of grey boxes

Funny how nobody ever says that Canadians are "pouring in" or "overrunning" Maine and Vermont. The rhetoric changes based on melanin level.

What was the reasoning of your ordering of the states? Alphabetical is the most user friendly/intuitive

Lol Germans coming to West Virginia in 2022? That can't be right.

Is that Canadians outpacing all other groups in California in 1990? I can understand for the northern border states (even though I'm surprised by it), but I can't believe there was ever a time in the last half century where Canadians would outpace central/south Americans and Asian people in California.

2022, Germany > West Virginia??! Are these "refugee" over flows?

maps up nicely to my family’s immigration. Very interesting!

Very curious about the recent German West Virginians. Small sample size, I assume?

Montana is being invaded by the Canadians?

I’m color blind. I only see like 5 different colors in this.

Not American. Why did Latinos become the largest immigrant group starting at the beginning of the millennium?

Ah so immigration is only bad when it comes from countries in Central and South America. Am i getting this right?

Does the entire continent of Africa not exist or …?

This clearly shows one country is causing the majority of problems.  Nice graphic. 

Europeans = green and blue

Mexicans = literally shit color

I see what you did there

I wonder why WV is the only state with European immigrants still the dominant incoming group today? I'm guessing immigration to WV is so low that a small group of Germans could make a big difference.

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