{"id":71336,"date":"2019-05-20T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71336"},"modified":"2019-05-20T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T11:29:13","slug":"anomaly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71336","title":{"rendered":"Anomaly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog sent me this; it&#8217;s a map showing the most-common birth country for immigrants, by state, <em>excluding<\/em> Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob-1024x715.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob-1024x715.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob-300x209.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob-768x536.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob-430x300.png 430w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/1558202238450blob.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And with most states, you see either what would appear to be the effects of random distribution according to economic forces (the fairly even spreading of Indians, driven heavily by immigration of engineers, academics and other technicians), proximity (Philipinos in the West, Canadians in the North, Cubans in Florida), one that stumps me (Germans in New Mexico?)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and Somalis in Minnesota.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why, it&#8217;s <em>almost<\/em> as if a political movement decided to import an entire class of voters and concentrate them in a swing-y state, and indoctrinate them into a multi-generational voting bloc or something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog sent me this; it&#8217;s a map showing the most-common birth country for immigrants, by state, excluding Mexico. And with most states, you see either what would appear to be the effects of random distribution according to economic forces (the fairly even spreading of Indians, driven heavily by immigration of engineers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71336\/revisions\/71338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}