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The New Immigrants
As late as 1970, 24% of North Dakota's population was either born on
foreign soil, or had at least one foreign born parent, compared with a
national average of 11%. Today, while immigrants arrive from many parts
of the world, just as many arrive from other parts of the United States.
Along with Sudanese, Kurdish and Vietnamese immigrants, many of today's
immigrants are returning "natives" who have seen what the big,
wide world has to offer and who have decided that life on the Northern
Plains is just what they want. Those who left looking for the bright lights
and high paying jobs found those things along with high crime rates, traffic
jams and smog. In today's global economy, high paying jobs combined with
"quality of life" features provide a growing incentive for natives
to return to the region of their birth, and for new immigrants to join
the modern-day wagon train to take up residence in the under-populated
northern prairie.
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