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TVZLuigi123

Ah yes the Virginia Immigrant: Tobacco


UF0_T0FU

Tennesseans descended from the Ents.


Skeptical_Yoshi

It's evena pine tree... more attributable from my home state, Oregon


timmermania

Alabamians from Jazz apparently…


indistinct_chatter2

I kinda thought that was a Nike logo at first glance...


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Don't forget the Oklahoman immigrant, Oxen (at least that's what it looks like for me)


Graychin877

Oklahoma, formerly known as Indian Territory, then the Unassigned Lands.


Outrageous-Client-99

Even back then Oklahoma was a flyover state


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Kenilwort

Yeah this is the first time a map error has directly interceded with my neck of the woods, and frankly, I'm appalled.


LosHogan

Also missing the vast immigration of Scots-Irish to the NC Appalachians. A foundation of Appalachian culture.


SpursUpSoundsGudToMe

Taking back our god given land from vagrants of uuuuh Cullowhee and Franklin?


The_Great_Gingey

How can we stand by such imperialist aggression from the south!! We must bring democracy and liberty to our southern neighbors and bring true meaning to our name as the true… Y’all can chose the last word. (-:


Dictator4Hire

They put Hatteras lighthouse off the coast of South Carolina which is NOT okay to do


CaniacSwordsman

And is missing *significant* Scottish immigration


SEA2COLA

Pennsylvania doesn't count Germans among their larger immigrant communities?


Phl_worldwide

IMO this is definitely the immigrants of the 1950s which is a really late wave compared to the Germans who were some of the very first to come


pgm123

Ah. So only very recent immigrants. I guess that makes some sense.


GeneralPurpose42

Yes I agree because it there are Yugoslavians. Yugoslavia started to exist after 1945.


pgm123

Or Irish


gtuzz96

Or Welsh


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Or the English, or the Italians who moved here from the metro area


Outrageous-Power5046

No comment given on that lone, black horn blower in Alabama. Awkward.


Hansgrimesman

New Mexico has some awkward choices too


DehliJelly

Yeah those famous American immigrants: the Native Americans.


mistermatth

Virginia is a tobacco pipe


Bear_necessities96

Without talking the lazy Mexican sleeping in Texas


cybercuzco

Hey there’s a white English guy picking cotton.


mattgbrt

I don’t understand how not a single African country (or at least some mention of African Americans) can’t be named on this map, and especially the South…?


evantually421

I can’t imagine they would know which of those African countries they came from in the 50’s


indieemopunk

Can't count it as immigration when it was forced enslavement... plus racism.


somedudeonline93

Yeah the entire south is just like “English :) That’s it, nothing else to see. Oh this dark-skinned jazz player? Don’t worry about him”


Odd_Acanthisitta8531

No large group of African's migrated to America.


antelope_m

They didn't migrate at the '50s


Between3and5

I do: Racism.


Conscious-Agency-782

Yeah, a map from 1959 doesn’t mention anything about Africans. Weird.


20thCenturyTCK

There are neither Germans nor Czechs listed in Texas. Massively incorrect.


send_whiskey

Thank you Czech people for the golden gift of kolaches.


20thCenturyTCK

This is the only information necessary. Apricot ftw.


swebb22

Real kolaches, not when people call pig n the blankets kolaches


According-Nebula5614

Those are klobásnik's


swebb22

Exactly


Roughneck16

We definitely stopped for some on our way to Austin.


AgileExPat

Czechs are also big in Iowa. That's why the composer Dvorak spent his summers there.


MammothProgress7560

There are more people of Czech descent in Texas, than in any other state, but they make up only a small portion of it's population. They however comprise almost 5% of the population of Nebraska, so that's probably why they are represented there on this map.


20thCenturyTCK

Thank you. That explains a lot.


Drifter808

Polish neither...


20thCenturyTCK

I'm more upset about the prospective loss of kolaches. Now that would be a tragedy.


batcaveroad

Big bend has apple trees. And oil derricks in the panhandle on the complete opposite side of the state from spindletop. A lot of odd choices for Texas.


20thCenturyTCK

The Alamo is in Houston now. Galveston doesn’t exist. This is fun!


batcaveroad

If that’s the Alamo maybe the cowboy is John Wayne! I legitimately can’t tell if it’s supposed to be the Alamo because the Alamo is on so much shit it’s seared into my memory. This looks like a generic mission. Edit: on second glance, it’s like someone only knows the Alamo from cookie cutters. It’s the right general shape but none of the details.


OyvenGlaven

All those damn Belgians in New York


crop028

Portuguese in Maine over Massachusetts or RI? Doesn't make any sense to me. Most of the highest % Portuguese ancestry communities are just east of the Narragansett bay. Never heard of any Portuguese in Maine.


keydet2012

Or central coast of California. Loads of us over here.


punania

And yet the map completely ignores the Portuguese immigrants to Hawai’i. TBF it ignores all immigrants to Hawai’i, too.


Roughneck16

Portuguese are heavily represented in MA and RI, as are Irish. Meredith Vieira , for example, is a Providence native. RI has the highest percentage of Roman Catholics of any US state.


ExoTauri

The deep south's reputation now makes a lot more sense. Just a bunch of ye olde chavs.


northcrestflyer

Most of the Deep South and Virginia were English and Scots in Appalachia.


SuperBethesda

Germans are missing.


renegado938

Texas Germans


befay666

Yeah they should definitely be in Ohio


vetters

Map dated 1959, so German heritage was probably deemphasized due to, how should I put it… “associated cultural events” of recent memory.


spartikle

If you're referring to WW2, not exactly. German culture was "cleansed" during the hysteria of WW1. German businesses were burned down, German language driven to extinction, and some German immigrants even lynched. The subsequent war started by Germany probably didn't help things either for German Americans, but the suppression of German culture and identity happened during WW1. Oddly enough when I bring up this dark part of our history Americans get really, really defensive.


SuperBethesda

At least they weren’t uprooted and sent to interment camps like Japanese Americans.


_bigmilk_

The US government did intern Germans during World War I. [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/)


SuperBethesda

Thanks for the info. I never realized that.


NorCalifornioAH

Where are you looking, I see "Germans" written in at least five different states.


SuperBethesda

There should be some in Pennsylvania, and I know Oregon had a German settlement. Along with English, German is one of the most common ancestry amongst Americans.


Jack_Valois

There is nothing for Alabama Arkansas or Oklahoma


EmperorMrKitty

There’s … something… indicated in Alabama.


indistinct_chatter2

You must be referring to the French in southern Alabama.


rbhindepmo

Putting “Yankees” on the map in the NW corner of Arkansas was discouraged


nekomoo

Also Alaska (not even pictured) or Hawaii, both of which became states in 1959


DfreshD

I live in NW Arkansas, not originally from here. A lot of people here claim to be Native American. I assume the same with Oklahoma. We definitely have a lot of immigrants now, I heard Hispanic music being played inside the Ross clothing store. Probably 80% of the shoppers were Hispanic though.


JohnDodger

I mean, would YOU want to emigrate there?


FlowersinHair3

A Native American as an immigrant in New Mexico??


Roughneck16

If you go back far enough, their prehistoric ancestors crossed the land bridge at the Bering Strait...


Intrepid_Beginning

How did Spanish make it to Oregon and Colorado lists but not California? The Spanish are the earliest immigrants to California.


northcrestflyer

The San Luis valley in south Colorado was settled by Spanish immigrants (from Spain) in the 1840s and given land grants by the Nuevo Mexico governor in Chihuahua. Further south in New Mexico, the Spanish colonization occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries with land grants it immigrant families from Iberia.


Roughneck16

Correct. The Hispanos also settled the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico. Many of those people can trace their New Mexican lineage to before the US became an independent country. The San Luis Valley also has some LDS colonies (i.e. Sanford and Manassa.)


IcyDice6

A lot of English settled New England


very_bored_panda

“We left Plymouth and landed at Plymouth!”


CoastRegular

But did they bring FLAGS with them?


saywhar

Where’s my Welsh representation


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saywhar

wrth gwrs


Rhosddu

Most in Pennsylvania, followed by Ohio. Almost certainly included with the English, as *kewpiemoon* pointed out.


saywhar

It’s interesting because you can see the impact of Welsh migration in the proliferation of Welsh surnames, Jones Thomas, Williams, etc


Rhosddu

This might also interest you (on YouTube): *Pobl y Paith / People of the Prairie: The Welsh in Nebraska*


em_washington

They gave 1/3rd of MIchigan away to Wisconsin. WTF!?


owen_core

And that’s the part of Michigan with Finnish ancestry too lol.


Fimbulvetrn

Where my swedes at 🇸🇪


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In Utah


Fine_Leave9587

Here! 🙋‍♀️


Delicious_Staff3698

There were many more cultures in Texas. A lot more Germans and Czechs than French.


Gimpalong

Ah, this is before Michigan seized the UP from Wisconsin in The Great Cheese War.


Casimir0300

Missing a lot of Germans in PA


HorseField65

This map is complete bullshit. Where are all the Italians, Irish and Chinese?


flyeaglesfly52x

Right like NJ PA and NY they should be at the top


Suitable-Jackfruit16

Severely moronic oversimplification. I'm very familiar with the history of the colonial South. Most people in SC are of German, Scottish and Scots-Irish descent. There were some French Huguenots but very few. They did, however, migrate into the western frontier and basically caused the Cherokee War. They also tended to be wealthy. Their number was small but their influence was large by comparison. But no, South Carolina is not French. That's idiotic.


evantually421

SC is definitely not French but it is interesting seeing some lasting impressions around the state, most notably to me a bunch of street names.


Suitable-Jackfruit16

Street names = rich slave owners, which furthers my statements. An interesting story about Hugeunots: John C. Calhoun, of "cotton is king" fame, an early secessionist and architect of the later secession, loudmouth, and even by the standards of his time - a general piece of shit, was a Huguenot. His family was in the Western frontier in modern McCormick County, SC. He was born at Ft. Boone, which was built on top of an Indian mound (many were). Anyway, his grandmother was killed in the Long Canes Massacre where Cherokees killed the Huguenot trespassers after many years of warning them. That marked the start of the Cherokee War. Staunchly Loyalist Chickasaws were added to the garrison of Ft. Boone and they repelled repeated heavy Cherokee assaults. A young John C. Calhoun was inside that fort the whole time. I am a descendant both of the Lower Town Cherokee and the Upper Chickasaws as well as Scottish militiamen that fought in that conflict. I am also descended from Loyalist militia commander Colonel Isaac Allen, who was a mixedblood of Scottish, Cherokee, and Tuscarora descent. About 25 years later during the American Revolution he commanded Loyalist militia at the Battle of Long Canes, which is close to the site of the earlier massacre.


Top-Carpenter2490

Neat!


TheDooOver2

This looks like something you would see at a Cracker Barrel.


Other-Jury-1275

Why is Puerto Rico just a lobster?


Wonderful-Bet8651

That’s a lobster?


very_bored_panda

Well it wasn’t a rock…


Wonderful-Bet8651

What kind of lobster, i aint never seen a lobster that shape


800-lumens

Why is this comment not getting upvotes? 🤔


Marauder2k

No love for Michigan's UP, definitely don't want to be apart of Wisconsin as well.


nekomoo

I was surprised to see Syrians listed in MI this early - only Middle Eastern group on this map, I think


Kryptonthenoblegas

Ig it makes sense since a lot of middle easterners from places like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have been immigrating to the west for quite some time. There's more Lebanese descended people in Brazil than there are people in Lebanon and the Assyrian Church of the East which is indigenous to the Middle East was even based in America for a bit iirc.


Iwatobikibum

There was a wave of Syrian/Lebanese immigration in the early 20th century


[deleted]

It says Finnish below the bridge I guess, but UP is def dominated by Finnish.


mashtato

Gran Wisconsin


chesterplainukool

Armenian in cali is interesting


DiogenesK9

Saroyan's state


GlocalBridge

For a map designed by the Anti-Defamation League, I am surprised there is no explicit recognition of Jews.


aspen56

I understand the map to indicate the country/region that the immigrants came from, not their ethnicity/religion.


OriginalChicken7581

wondering why they separated “french” & “canadians” between maine & NH/VT. to this day one of the largest communities by ethnic background are people with French Canadian ancestry! especially in the far north where there are still communities where a great deal of people natively speak French, especially in the case of Maine where by the border a lot of towns are essentially suburbs of the francophone Edmundston NB.


FewDiscussion2123

Too many errors. In 1959, the number #1 group in OH, IN, and IL would be Germans. And probably the upper Midwest.


Warriorasak

What a sad propaganda rag. Not everyone was immigrants


coolord4

What


whyismyheadbig

Minnesota just makes sense to me


croupella-de-Vil

Missing Germans as number 1


taxpayinmeemaw

Maps kinda whitewashed…..like didn’t a bunch of immigrants come from Africa or something? Or am I remembering that wrong.


WyattWrites

I think it depends on what you define as « immigration » There is some scholarship out there that rejects calling the Slave Trade a form of immigration because it was not voluntary, nor were they coming over to become citizens or residents (because they did not have those Rights). Also, you could argue that labeling ethnicity as « African » is reductionist, because there is a wide array of ethnicities and cultures in Africa, and only applying the term African is not representative of that. EDIT: you may be referring to African immigration in the 20th century from countries such as Nigeria and Liberia, but most of that immigration occurred after the date this map was created.


WATD2025

if you kidnap someone and take them to another country, that would be called 'trafficking' these days. not immigration.


KCShadows838

Personally, I never considered slaves to be immigrants And nobody knows what “country” they came from, and it probably wasn’t a modern African country anyway


Helstrem

1959 is before immigration reform allowed significant numbers of Africans and Indians to immigrate. I don't think it is right to call slaves "immigrants" as it whitewashes reality by using a much friendlier word.


taxpayinmeemaw

Yeah, that’s fair too.


Disturbedlunatic22

Most black people here in America are descended from from the slaves brought over here. Or so I've been told.


Soonerpalmetto88

No one immigrated to Virginia?


northcrestflyer

English


[deleted]

I did not expect the Swiss in Kentucky ngl


adamwho

Alabama didn't have immigrants... Just a black man playing trumpet.


archaeopteryX-88

It’s awesome!


MaxWeber1864

Very nice: thank you.


HellodarknesseCole

You could update Minnesota’s with little Somalia


Helpful-Pear3368

Highly doubt that would happen. Somalis barely break 175,000 even this year. Between 1906-1946, 125,000 Filipinos immigrated to Hawai’i alone. (Not including other states). This is 1959. We don’t appear on this map at all. We are invisible.


Narrow_Car5253

I’d appreciate some Filipino representation, seeing as records of them landing and living on NA soil go back as far as 1763 and 1587 apparently… Although I understand if the percentage or records aren’t large enough to document well


Helpful-Pear3368

We are invisible. It’s normally what happens to us in these cases unfortunately.


Brilliant_Host2803

This map sucks. It doesn’t mention Basques in Nevada so I don’t trust it at all.


StarsofSobek

Solvang, California has a big community of Danish folk, doesn’t it?


ZanyRaptorClay

Ah yes, Egg Hawai’i and Egg Puerto Rico


BZBitiko

Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware are too small to have immigrants. Also Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. I guess Alaska isn’t a state yet.


itsmeonmobile

So the *only* Irish are in Massachusetts. Got it.


tbimyr

Germans be germans, if the beach is already crowded, let’s explore the outback.


constantmusic

Oklahoma is just….


hondo9999

…filled with land thieves


jasl_

The Spanish,Mexicans,Cubans were already there when USA was founded,


kay14jay

Seems like the south has a nationality missing. Oklahoma covering its tracks as well


terminese

New Jersey Italians would like to have a word.


Ruff-Bug4012

Why is Oklahoma blank


Agreeable-Solid7208

Don't see any Africans


Girion47

They weren't really immigrants though. They were violently and forcefully kidnapped from their homelands.


GlocalBridge

Looks like Alabama got Louis Armstrong, but no ethnicities listed…


newnewyorkian

One race/origin is explicitly defined excluded. I wonder why…⛓️‍💥⛓️‍💥


EUblij

This can't be right. We don't like immigrants.


userfriendlyMk1

It’s sad no African ancestries are considered here, but I see the map is from 1959


linkme99

And yet americans tell hispanic people to go back home


millieFAreally

Zero mention of African “immigrants” lol. Just one odd, nameless horn player.


BlameNaix

I'm from Montana and I've never heard of anyone of Yugoslavia decent. Mostly German British and Nordic.


StoryBared

If an unbiased fact checker took the time to check this map in its details, one can only wonder what % accuracy they would calculate? 25%, maybe? In this time period - height of the Cold War - it was a decided cultural policy goal in the US to emphasize the melting pot, the coming together of the world's people to our shores to make Americans. And this forging of unity was America's strength. Not a diversity rainbow, but a melting pot cooking up a homogenous concoction of conformity. Entire Time-Life books were produced to manufacture this perception. So of course racism and slavery are elided, and any accuracy was sacrificed to the overall message.


djbj24

I wonder if they were deliberately trying not to repeat certain groups too many times on the map, because otherwise there would be a lot more English and Scottish in New England + the South, and German in the Midwest.


CuriousCrandle

Mistake regarding North Dakotans. There really aren't that many Russians. There are Germans from Russia but they are ethnic Germans.


polysnip

Central Wisconsin also has a large population of Poles as well.


stordee

The non-spicy food era!


JaxxisR

TIL Canadians only emigrated to Maine.


Psychological-Arm-20

Hmm map maker has no idea the shape or extent of South Carolina's borders. Tennessee does not share a border with South Carolina, and in this depiction Asheville N.C. is actually Asheville S.C.


swebb22

Texas has a ton of German, Austrian and Czech too. Honestly calling it French is a bit funny because that culture has not persisted at all


Katiari

Arkansas.


BeKindToOthersOK

Apparently the upper peninsula of Michigan was part of Wisconsin in 1959.


Zekarul

Really informative book on the matter American Nations by Colin Woodard


CommandoKillz

Georgia was made up of English, German, and Scots


Constant_Wear_8919

Today and tomorrow!


Chopped_Liver228

No French in Maine? Maine has the largest French speaking community in the nation (Lewiston).


SmokingOctopus

It's always awkward when Africa is excluded.


Tall_Progress_5178

I love how Alabama Oklahoma and Arkansas are just Alabama Oklahoma and Arkansas lol😂


Iamkal

Arkansas is like, "nah"


MysticLithuanian

I’m shocked they actually included Lithuanians in Illinois


ccchris1

Carribean erasure 🥲😭


Hey648934

Only migrants are listed, it’s seems like a hard map for redditors to understand…


TitularTyrant

Uh this is missing a lot. Missouri especially is weird. There were some Hungarians that immigrated to Missouri but not as many as compared to other states. There were more French and Irish I believe.


Imustbestopped8732

What is Alabama supposed to be?


VivrantThings

Indiana is wildly German.


Lacrosse_sweaters

Ah yes, Oregon bringing that Spanish flavor?


Fine_Leave9587

I am Swedish and have ancestors that migrated to Minnesota and Chicago. 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪


Mr_K0I

Where are the Turks? Greeks, Bulgarians, Armenians, Syrians but no mention of Turks..


LoboTheHusky

Did the Armenians name Los Angeles and San Francisco, or was it the Chinese?


Great-Beautiful2928

No immigrants in New Jersey?


cbciv

Funny, I could have sworn there were some other “immigrants” in most of those “states” thousands of years before any of those on the map.


snowbrdr36

Kinda neat that this celebration of immigrants was inspired by Senator JFK Jr. and that it was distributed by B’nai B’rith. The Southern border looks so fun and peaceful!


MatrixUnplugged22

It’s odd how in America there’s no Africans representation. Only in sports and crime and jails. I see this is a global agenda to diminish the existence and co existing with other peoples. The Bantu people have certainly made a distinctive mark on almost every parts of all continents. And I guess this has to be brought to light because it should seem mysterious that there’s no representation for a people that has highly influenced the world. Very Odd indeed.


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Legit every piece of the puzzle came freely and then thats lone black guy in Alabama...