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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
#102I was waiting for US to explode in the end of the animation.
Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#103Hi, nitpick comment, but the boundaries of the countries on this map are not changing over the course of almost a century.
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#104Surprised me how much came from Canada -- has that been a thing, or is Canada a proxy for other countries?
I was as well. It makes some sense, my family is an example. They were Scots they came to the British-American colonies in the 1750s after the clan system was extinguished in the post-Jacobite era. But part of the family went up to Canada in the early 19th century after the Revolution. Many of them are still there today but some have moved back down. My wife's family has gone back and forth between the US and Mexico a number of times, depending on economic factors. Her dad had dual citizenship and renounced his American just 20 years ago. Sounds odd but he does really well for himself in manufacturing and as a politician.
The ties between all 3 North American countries have to be pretty deep at this point.
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#105I was waiting for US to explode in the end of the animation.
it exploded in many ways: new technology startups, innovation, etc.
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#1063,443,063 Indians in USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person...
Re: Show HN: Map of immigration to the U.S. since 1820
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oh, this is pretty interesting: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit... : Fifteen largest ancestries in the United States as self reported in the 2000 Census:[58] Rank Ancestry Number Percent of total population — U.K. (1801–1922) 66,224,627[59] 23.3%[59] 1 German 42,841,569 15.2% 2 Irish 30,524,799 10.8% 3 African 24,903,412 8.8% 4 English 24,509,692 8.7% 5 American 20,188,305 7.2% 6 Mex…
Even more interesting if you look at it state by state. You'll find that most states in the northwestern part of the country are majority German, for example.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is the data source: http://metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/usa-immigrat... The footnotes on page 11 give a good explanation. For the most part, Austria, Hungary, and Poland are broken out separately according to their present borders, even for the periods when they weren't separate countries.
Maybe I misunderstand what is said on page 16, but to me it seems like foreign nationals like Polish people are included in other countries data. So the data is bound to geographical areas not nationalities, while the interactive map shows today's geographical boundaries, which don't included said geographical areas and nationalities anymore, making the data skewed. How was the data gathered? Depending on what you as…
Likewise, you could ask from three persons who came from the same place at different times:
Where are you from?
1853: Lemberg in the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, the first city in Europe with street lights! I'm Galician.
1923: Lwow in Poland, the city that bravely defended against the Red Army! I'm Polish.
1953: Lviv of USSR! I am a Soviet citizen.
1993: Lviv of Ukraine! I am Ukrainian.
And this doesn't include some shorter term changes such as Distrikt Galizien in 1943.
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#109why are you using an iframe?
The graphic is a canvas element overlaid on an svg element. I wasn't able to figure out a way of making the whole thing responsive so I just put it in a responsive iframe.
I'm sure there is a better solution. Would love to hear if anyone knows.
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#110This is beautiful. Thanks for making it.