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Isn't there a Somali community in Minnesota also?
There is a Somali community in Maine.

 

I had a relative get a job teaching English as second language in Austin, Minnesota. She was surprised to learn that the largest immigrant group she would be teaching would be Somalis. Austin is where Hormel Foods is headquartered and has manufacturing facilities.

The meat packing industry has a history of bitter labor disputes. When the union gots busted immigrants frequently would come in to work in the plants. A meat packing town in the Midwest will have a diverse population.

 

There are like 30,000 Bhutanese Nepalis in Columbus, Ohio.

 

There's also a couple of Amish communities in Maine but that's not necessarily immigrant related.

 

New York had a big influx of Puerto Ricans and African-Americans from the South in the postwar period because of the manufacturing done in New York at the time. Shortly after, the factories started closing and moving first down south, and later overseas. Logistics companies also moved to New Jersey where there was more space. The loss of jobs and the poor population led to the fiscal crisis of the 1970s.

 

IIRC the largest ex-pat Somali population is in Nashville, and Minnesota is second...they both have populations that are so large, Somali candidates for president campaign there and the areas feature polling places for Somali elections.

 

I don't care what anybody says, the movie Next of Kin is enjoyable no matter how bad Liam Neesen and Bill Paxton butcher southern accents.

 

Don’t know about Somalis but the largest Kurdish population outside the Middle East is in Nashvegas, especially Antioch.

 

Cape Cod and the Boston area have relatively large Brazilian communities. and have for many years, although they've grown more rapidly in the last decade.

 

I think I read this summer that Cincinnati is getting a huge influx of Senegalese immigrants. There was a decent community of them there, and various organizations have brought recent migrants there to help them get on their feet.

Dearborn, Michigan, famously has a huge Middle Eastern and Muslim population. One of the biggest in the country, IIRC, or at least for a city its size.

 

I always thought that was because of the pre-existing Portuguese populations in the area. Brazilians' moved to the area because of the language.

Last spring I was working in Brazil and started was talking to a local in English. He was using the word wicked in every way possible grammatically. So I asked him if Mac Jones was the answer as a replacement for Brady. He was pessimistic.