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Since this page states" "Most illegal immigration is not included" I'd like to see one of these representing the flow of illegal immigrants (especially from and across Mexico) since Obama won his first election (and second).
Australia has very little immigration to the US it seems.
This is a cool map and there's tons of information in it. It'd be nice to see more details, like the actual numbers instead of just a top 3 counties list. Or if I pause the timeline and hover over a country it'd be neat if it listed that year's exodus. Why do come countries brighten in some years but then dim later on? Edit: ah I see the associated blog post has a little more info, especially about the brightness que…
Doesn't seem like removing a tooltip should make the difference, but it allowed me to simplify the map, remove jquery, and make a few other simplifications to the code.
If I were to make it over again, I would use WebGL for the particles next time instead of Canvas, and performance problems wouldn't be an issue.
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No, importation of slaves to the U.S. was banned in 1808. Most slaves were native-born, to slaves and descendants of slaves.
The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad I'm sure many slaves were slave-born in that period, but it seems they were still importing people from Africa en masse.
>Of the more than 10 million enslaved Africans to eventually reach the Western Hemisphere, just 388,747—less than 4 percent of the total—came to North America.
This is an excellent infographic showing the travels of the ships of the time via their shipslogs. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_s...
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No, importation of slaves to the U.S. was banned in 1808. Most slaves were native-born, to slaves and descendants of slaves.
The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad I'm sure many slaves were slave-born in that period, but it seems they were still importing people from Africa en masse.
Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
One thing that stood out to me is that immigration from Canada nearly stopped altogether in the mid 1890s. I wonder if the klondike gold rush was a factor here. I know it spurred a mass migration to the North. As a collateral effect, even Vancouver's population skyrocketed growing from around 13,700 in 1891 to over 100,000 in 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Vancouver#Popu...
Some predictable phenomena (Cubans being the most common migrant group in Florida from 1970 onwards, Mexicans being the most common migrants in Texas and the West Coast initially and then most places) and some weird ones (why were Laotians so common in Minnesota in 1990, and why is the Ethiopian diaspora the largest in South Dakota as of 2013?)
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No, importation of slaves to the U.S. was banned in 1808. Most slaves were native-born, to slaves and descendants of slaves.
The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad I'm sure many slaves were slave-born in that period, but it seems they were still importing people from Africa en masse.
Similarly, trade between the CSA and the U.K. was "banned" as well, but there were successful blockade runners.
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The case of the Amistad in 1839 (fictionalised in a famous Spielberg movie) shows that this was not at all the case in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._The_Amistad I'm sure many slaves were slave-born in that period, but it seems they were still importing people from Africa en masse.
I wrote that it was banned ; I did not say that enforcement was flawless. Similarly, trade between the CSA and the U.K. was "banned" as well, but there were successful blockade runners.
Coincidentally, I saw these state by state migrant origin maps for each decade in animated form on Twitter this morning (showing numbers resident rather than numbers flowing in) http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/from-ireland-to-german... Some predictable phenomena (Cubans being the most common migrant group in Florida from 1970 onwards, Mexicans being the most common migrants in Texas and the West Coast initially…
Good chance this is actually a lot of Hmong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Hmong_in_Minnea...
(source: went to school in the 90s in Minnesota, like 30% of my classmates were Hmong)
Similar deal with Somali in Minneapolis - once there's critical mass of a given group in a given city, it increases the immigration pull because there's a support network. Right: if you do local stuff in Minneapolis, it's trivial to get paperwork in Somali, or find a Hmong translator.