{"id":577,"date":"2009-03-11T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/11\/mapping-north-country-immigration\/"},"modified":"2009-03-11T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T12:37:00","slug":"mapping-north-country-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/11\/mapping-north-country-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping North Country immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2009\/03\/10\/us\/20090310-immigration-explorer.html?exampleUserLabel=nytimes&amp;exampleSessionId=1236774947453\">fantastically cool interactive map<\/a> that tracks immigration patterns in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The great thing is that you can zoom in:  first by state, then burrowing down to the county level. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, you can then run the slider from 1880 through 2000, observing the evolving trend-lines of immigration. <\/p>\n<p>In 1880, St. Lawrence County was about one-sixth foreign born, with most of the immigrants hailing from Canada.  In 2000, the percentage had dropped to about 2%.  (Though the big arrival group was still Canadian.)<\/p>\n<p>My biggest takeaway?  In 1880 through the early parts of 1900, northern New York enjoyed a lot of immigration, allowing these communities to keep pace (at least to a certain degree) with downstate populations.<\/p>\n<p>But after 1940 or so, our immigration actually begins to shrink, while New York City continues to erupt with newcomers.   <\/p>\n<p>Check the tool out and play with it and tell us what you see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has created a fantastically cool interactive map that tracks immigration patterns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}