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*In the 1870s, Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from '''southern and eastern Europe'''. These included '''Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks'''. | *In the 1870s, Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from '''southern and eastern Europe'''. These included '''Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks'''. | ||
*During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, '''African Americans''' from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | *During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, '''African Americans''' from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. | ||
*Pennsylvania's '''Hispanic''' population grew by 82.6% between 2000 and 2010, making it one of the largest increases in a state's Hispanic population. The significant growth of the Hispanic population is due to immigration to the state mainly from Puerto Rico, which is a US territory, but to a lesser extent from countries such as the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and various Central and South American nations, as well as from the wave of Hispanics leaving New York and New Jersey for safer and more affordable living. | |||
*The majority of Hispanics in Pennsylvania are of '''Puerto Rican''' descent, having one of the largest and fastest-growing Puerto Rican populations in the country. Most of the remaining Hispanic population is made up of '''Mexicans and Dominicans'''. Most Hispanics are concentrated in Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley and South Central Pennsylvania. <ref name="Penn"/> | |||
==In-country Migration== | ==In-country Migration== | ||