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Dallas and Oklahoma. Lots of ou fans live in Dallas and I'd imagine a good plurality of Dallas oos residents are from Oklahoma. Not sure about Houston and Louisiana.
Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, and Bridgeport, CT with New York City. Much closer ties than with Hartford. CT is like a few small states in one with strong connections to NY, MA, and RI.
Agreed with all but Bridgeport. Outside of sports fandom leaning to NY and the MetroNorth passing by, there really isn't much New York City ties to Bridgeport.
Speaking of the Great Migration and more modern patterns, many in the black community here in Louisiana (Baton Rouge and New Orleans) have connections to the Detroit and Chicago area because of the historic Great Migration, with New Orleans linked directly to Chicago by Interstate 55, US 61 and the railroad since a long time ago, and there's been a more modern migration of Louisiana blacks to Houston and Atlanta especially after Katrina.
These connections are much less true for Louisiana's whites and other non African Americans. Many whites here don't really have deep connections to other states and the ones that do is usually Mississippi, and some retire to the Florida Panhandle and some go to the Houston and Beaumont area to work. Very few whites from the Deep South(the way many Appalachian/Upper South whites did) have moved to northern states and unlike states like Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina, Louisiana does not get a lot of white northern transplants. People usually don't travel far to see family during the holidays and what travel happen is usually Mississippi or Texas.
Hispanics/Mexicans here usually first went to Texas before coming here.
I do know a few peeps from Louisiana back when I lived in Houston area. It's definitely mostly limited to Houston area and nowhere further west, though.
And Katrina definitely push a fair amount of NOLA peeps to Houston, for better or worse.
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Baltimore and Pennsylvania? Lotta Baltimore area commuters from South-central PA.
Or at least Shrewsbury / Glen Rock / New Freedom...the 1st one was known as "Little Baltimore" (Not referring to the crime rate here) just b/c of all the people that work in (or near) Baltimore lives there.
Yeah most blacks out here trace their lineage back to Texas, and Louisiana funny how the great migration worked. Every city had Blacks from specific states.
I kind of knew that but very cool nonetheless. I find the migratory patterns of different races/ethnicities/cultures in this country quite fascinating.
One of the more curious ones I've heard about is the tie between northern New England, specifically central Maine, and French-Canadians, either Acadians or Quebeckers. https://bowdoinorient.com/2018/11/09...short-history/
I'd never heard of it until puzzling about why shepherd's pie is called "Chinese pie" in Quebec.
Isn’t there a relationship between Chicagoland and Phoenix??
Yes! I would say the STRONG relationship is between Chicagoland and Arizona. So many Chicagoans have relocated to Arizona (primarily Phoenix area). There are so many former Chicagoans in Arizona/Phoenix that they have a Portillo’s, Lou Malnati’s, and Gino’s! There is a clear migration pattern from Chicago to Arizona/Phoenix.
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