Here's Where Each State's Immigrant Populations Come From

www.businessinsider.com/pew-immigration-maps-2014-5

Not a native of Alabama it has always been somewhat difficult for me to appreciate the extent of the cultural bias for everyone and everything not considered to be from or for the land of Dixie.

I wonder if other people recognize any cultural barriers when they move to a state not of their birth, and whether the natives make their lives harder for what they consider to be an invasion of their turf?

Which of our united states are better and which are worse when it pertains to rolling out the welcome mat and/or promoting antiquated boundaries that outsiders dare not trespass?

Some of the rules for legal immigration include health and background checks.

TB and polio is creeping back in from the southern border.

Las Zetas, the group that killed Mexico presidents son, are now based in the panhandle.

Jobs and natural resources are being strained.

HB VISAs are handed out over hiring citizens.

The only thing wrong with our immigration laws? Corporations pay well keeping them from being enforced.

Compare our unenforced laws to the enforced immigration laws of Canada and Mexico.

As long as you can play the spoons and refer to violins as a fiddle nobody can tell you're not from dixie.

Couple of other pointers, if someone asks if you'd like some icecream for desert say no you want beef jerky.
If you want people to listen to you mention a moose in your story.
Never buy or drive a car made after 1936.
Refer to all guns as flintlocks.
Apparel should include at least one animal hide.
If asked to provide directions point to landmarks and preface with "them thar...(hills, signs, bridge)" and spit.
Entering restricted areas is okay when hotly pursuing a headless turkey.


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Just kidding, I've no idea what dixie is like.

Hahaha!....Excellent, just excellent!!

seems like you can read between the lines pretty good though...

I seemed to have gone on an old fart tangent.

I have visited, driven through, hitchhiked through all the seaboard eastern states. I did it twice and no desire to go east again.

I was raised up in southern Ms. Right on the Gulf. And spent about ten years, after leaving for twenty, living and doing business there.

Seattle, Tacoma, Renton. Big cities and me don't do well. I preferred coming out of the mountains when I needed something from town.

Oregon folks were very clickish and snobs along PCH. They didn't cotton to strangers who weren't like them. I did get along well with the loggers.

Eastern Ca was awesome. Salton Sea, Yucca Valley. Met many close to earth folks.

Likewise in Longman. All of Las Vegas is a sewer pit. Thought about camping in a shopping center parking lot in North Vegas. Took about ten minutes of being cased to get on out of town.

I have met with plenty of discrimination here near Mexico. The silence and stares. I'm kind of a large mo-fo and only one Mexican has come up in my face with a, get the hell back to the states, pinche gringo. I stood up and he left pronto.

I pretty much, make my home where I damned well please.

Santa Fe, NM. Could have invisioned living there. But, the cost of living was extreme.

I don't get the tangent part, but I appreciate the look see from your perspective. It really helps to understand the overall view from those who have traveled extensively and have a real feel for the land. Thanks for taking the time to share...

In my youth my family traveled due to my dad's military career, every two years we were stationed somewhere new, even went to Puerto Rico, and I found that I liked Michigan and Texas the best because of the lesser degree of prejudice against outsiders in their overall cultures.