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Most Common Country of Birth for Foreign-Born Residents (excluding Mexico), by State. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pleased and surprised to see Philippines so well represented but surprised it isn't a larger asian country like Japan.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.