Where do various Mexican immigrants settle in the US?

[Count David]

Originally Posted by NOLA101

Yeah, NYC Mexicans mostly originate from Puebla.

Midwest Mexicans mostly originate from Guanajuato.

Not totally sure, but CA and TX Mexicans seem to be heavily from Northern Mexico.

I know Chicago has a large population of people from Michoacan.

In Southern CA, many Mexican immigrants I knew were from the central and southern parts of Mexico. Puebla, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Guerrero, DF, Estado de Mexico, Queretaro, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guanajuato, etc. Many of the central guys would look down on the more northerners (Durango, Zacatecas, Sinaloa), like they weren't as worthy, and felt that guys from the Yucatan weren't trustworthy.

I never met anybody from a border state until I moved to Colorado. Lots of folks from Juarez here.

My own family came from (at the very least) Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, and Sonora. My Mexican sides have been here for 90-100+ years now though.

[NOLA101]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

I know Chicago has a large population of people from Michoacan.

In Southern CA, many Mexican immigrants I knew were from the central and southern parts of Mexico. Puebla, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Guerrero, DF, Estado de Mexico, Queretaro, Jalisco, Michoacan, Guanajuato, etc. Many of the central guys would look down on the more northerners (Durango, Zacatecas, Sinaloa), like they weren't as worthy, and felt that guys from the Yucatan weren't trustworthy.

I never met anybody from a border state until I moved to Colorado. Lots of folks from Juarez here.

My own family came from (at the very least) Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, and Sonora. My Mexican sides have been here for 90-100+ years now though.

Yeah, I forgot about Michoacan. Chicago is definitely heavily Michoacan and I think Sinaloa, to a lesser extent.

CA and TX are kind of tough to figure because Mexicans have been there forever, so they are woven into the fabric of the states, and you can find people with ties to anywhere in Mexico.

NYC is kind of the opposite in that there was no Mexican community whatsoever 20 years ago, but a pretty huge influx in a short time, so the community is almost all foreign-born and still tied to where they're from in Mexico (which is Puebla, for the most part). Of course there was always a small elite population of Mexicans in Manhattan (like Carlos Slim and the like) but the typical Mexican in NYC arrived very recently and from villages in Puebla.

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Figured Mexicans from the North usually immigrate to The Sunbelt region.