1965 Immigration Act. That's when we stopped caring about making immigration work for our country, and started caring about doing whatever it takes to not be called racist.
Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
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Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#62I love new ways to express data. But, as I see animations like this I become a little anxious as I'd like to absorb the information, but if I look too closely in one area then I risk missing a bigger pattern or trend. After watching, I'm convinced that a good old line chart would have been a better representation of the data. Perhaps with some added dynamic behaviour.
I really wanted to see both /where/ immigration was going /to/ and also where it was from. Like color mixing and destinations.
Looks like they were all going to Kansas to me.
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#63Australia has very little immigration to the US it seems.
Who, living in Australia, would want to immigrate to US? Most of the people I know would be happy to go as far as Hawaii (for a holiday) but moving to US from Downunder.......hmm.......you would have to have a good bloody reason, especially given the possible outcome of the upcoming elections. As for the rest of the countries mapped on this viz, I totally understand.
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#64Didn't know so much Germans came to the US back in the days.
German was a dominate language. At one time, nearly 1/3 of people in the US spoke it fluently. Germans were shamed from speaking it after WW1 and WW2 made the numbers dwindle even further. If it hadn't been for the wars, the US would most likely have most official documents in English, German and Spanish and German would probably be on the passports as well (currently US passports contain English, French and Spanish)
Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#65I love new ways to express data. But, as I see animations like this I become a little anxious as I'd like to absorb the information, but if I look too closely in one area then I risk missing a bigger pattern or trend. After watching, I'm convinced that a good old line chart would have been a better representation of the data. Perhaps with some added dynamic behaviour.
At least it's not a YouTube video. I've seen some really cool videos that I wished were interactive, for things like territory changes during WWII.
Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#66I love new ways to express data. But, as I see animations like this I become a little anxious as I'd like to absorb the information, but if I look too closely in one area then I risk missing a bigger pattern or trend. After watching, I'm convinced that a good old line chart would have been a better representation of the data. Perhaps with some added dynamic behaviour.
I really wanted to see both /where/ immigration was going /to/ and also where it was from. Like color mixing and destinations.
Yeah, it's not terribly helpful to see that they went to the US. Seeing this broken down by county would have been so much more interesting.
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#67Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
Even today, the two countries share a huge border and basically share the continent. It's no surprise that a lot of people migrate back and forth.
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#68This 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…
Yes. It originally did allow you to hover over the countries to see more information. But combined with everything else it required too much memory and caused it to run slow on mobile browsers. 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 th…
too bad. Great map otherwise
Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#69Have you seen http://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/foreignborn/#decade=1850 ?
I starts 30 years later but has data on county level.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've long heard that German is the most common ancestry for Americans, but I've always wondered how that was determined. I think they may be counting total immigrants, but not allowing for when the immigrants arrived. I can readily believe that more immigrants arrived from Germany than from the British Isles, but it's also possible that by the time those German immigrants showed up they were outnumbered by the descen…
They just ask people where their ancestors came from, like on the census. Brits may be undercounted because they've been here so long they don't even know they were British, but also the European population was quite small when they first started to settle here.
I can't find the source, but a couple of years ago I saw a fascinating presentation from a genealogy & genotyping company showing that genetically more American's had English heritage than German heritage. Combining the 'American' census category into the 'English' category pretty much removed the discrepancy...