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But come to think of that, immigration doesn't target flyover areas - not so many immigrants come to middle of nowhere places. Instead the (desirable) coast areas get packed.

Maybe the fears of immigration are laughable, maybe not, but your argument doesn't hold water.

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That's false. There are lots of immigrants to Minnesota, from places like Laos, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Heck, Minneapolis/St.Paul is one of the largest groupings of the Somali diaspora. Immigrants don't just live in the cities but also small towns.

But anyway, who makes the mort stink about immigrants? The exact place you say immigrants aren't coming: flyover country.

By the way, Minnesota is historically fairly welcoming to immigrants. Blame Lutheran, Gerrison Keiller type values, I guess.

Minnesota also has a very large Hmong population.

That's what I meant when I said Laos, although you're right they're from several countries there.

Texas also has both a huge amount of land, and a large number of immigrants (around 15-20% of the state's population is foreign-born).

Do you have any insight for someone that knows very little about american geography as to why this is?

> who makes the mort stink

A nice idea if you ever want to get your point across in a democratic society: stop calling opponents' opinions "stink".

Seeing this they will only strengthen in feeling that you are selling something undesirable to them.

I have no idea about the numbers, but had a coworker whose family was from Liberia and moved to Minnesota as a kid. I know I've heard news stories about groups of Somali immigrants in places like Columbus, OH.

Yeah, those places aren't the least dense areas in the U.S., but I was expecting immigrants to almost exclusively be in port cities on the coast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Americans#Demographics

> immigration doesn't target flyover areas - not so many immigrants come to middle of nowhere places. Instead the (desirable) coast areas get packed.

In addition to the other examples already mentioned, suburban Detroit has the largest Arab-American population in the entire US.

http://michiganradio.org/post/what-explains-michigans-large-...

Depends entirely on the immigrants themselves. Cost of living is ridiculously high in "desirable" coastal cities. Most immigrants can't afford that.

Yet here in Nashville, Tennessee we have the largest population of Kurds in the United States.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2013/feb/23/...

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