Monday Trivia #41

Will Truman 41 Comments

The list (of the top 28 states plus DC) goes:

California, New Jersey, Florida, New York, Texas, Washington, Nevada, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Virginia, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Georgia, DC, New Mexico, North Carolina, Vermont, Michigan, Nebraska, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and then Utah.

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    • I would not be surprised if some other state actually surpassed california in percentage of residents who were born in california.

        • Noticed this nugget on wikipedia when trolling for clues:

          “Starting in the year 2010, for the first time since the California Gold Rush, California-born residents make up the majority of the state’s population.”

    • Maybe it’s gross numbers of families reporting that level of income rather than percentages? The answer feels right, and it comes from Randy Harris who has been dominating the field of late. My question would be, where is Alaska? Prices and incomes are significantly inflated there.

    • California’s total population is 37.25 million. The L.A. Metro area is 12.8 million, way over 10%. Los Angeles itself is about 3.8 million, just over 10%. So I don’t think it’s percentage in largest metro area or even in largest city.

      But I can’t claim any props here — it would have likely taken at least one more clue from Will before I got to income; Randy Harris got there on his own.

      Is it millionaires?

  8. Wednesday Hints:

    California sits at roughly 6%.

    North Dakota, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, and West Virginia are all at around 1% or less. West Virginia is at less than .5% and is at the bottom of the list (its only real contender being… Puerto Rico).

    • That’s not it, but you do have me wondering what such a statistic would look like. Probably very low. Throw in number of people who have ever donated to a campaign, and that would be very interesting.

  11. Thursday Hint on Wednesday Night:

    RTod and Plinko are the closest.

    I’ll be on the road and flying tomorrow, so responses may not be immediate if/when somebody gets it.

        • Percentage of temporary residents here on green cards and H1B work visas?

          • Jersey is 2 or 3 on most every percentage-wise measure of immigration, I suppose it’s the ‘its right by New York and kinda cheaper’ factor.

          • Really? Huh.

            I guess I figured that either a state with a lot fewer residents overall *OR* a state that was, ahem, closer to interested immigrants would take that number.

          • It’s a combined function of proximity to NY, which obviously has a lot of jobs, but is also The City, and the fact that we have certain industries here that have historically relied heavily on H1B visas, such as the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, we have huge numbers of immigrants from Asia, especially India. The fifth biggest city in the state, Edison, is close to 50% Asian, with the overwhelming bulk of that being from India. We’ve also got a pretty large population of Latino immigrants, especially from Costa Rica and, I think, Colombia and Cuba. Eastern Europe, too. He’ll, I even know a whole group of French immigrant chemists. Basically if you’re an immigrant looking to come from a place that requires flying into the US, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ll find NJ to be a pretty good place to go. You’ve got proximity to NY, a decent number of jobs where your employer will handle your paperwork, a decent number of immigrant friendly jobs more generally, and no shortage of enclaves from which to choose where you can be around plenty of other immigrants that speak your language and share your culture.

            That is, to my knowledge, pretty much how this state has always been.

  12. Answer: Foreign-born child population (as a percentage of the state’s child population).

    The surprising thing to me, when I tracked down the numbers, was that the list was not dominated by southwestern states. I would have guessed that Texas and particularly Arizona would have been right up there with California. Instead, Arizona is on-par with the nation as a whole and Texas just a bit higher.

    • WT, if the Census undercounted illegals [likely], it blows up the stats, esp TX and AZ.

      I enjoyed MarkT’s account of Edison NJ. Its violent crime rate is less than half that of NJ at large.

      http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/nj/edison/crime/

      I had mentioned awhile back preferring to take our immigration chances on highly-educated Hindus over minimally educated Christians…

      • They could be undercounted, but the numbers are based on the ACS and not the decennial census, so they are not bound by headcount and they can do the statistical sampling & estimation that is (supposed to) have more accurate (if less verifiable) numbers.

        • Didn’t mean to ruin yr trivia question, Will. I’d bet that TX & AZ are way over the average, but we shall never settle that bet.

          They don’t check the streets and refuse to count in the schools. Or clinics and hospitals. This is one stat we prefer not to know, and for the record, I prefer this gray area to deporting everyone in sight, and to legalizing them all as well.

          I can live with ambiguity, esp when I don’t like the black and white alternatives.

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