I’ve really got a great amount of enjoyment out of the
interesting immigration maps that people keep posting as parts of their blogs,
so I’ve gone out and found an article made up of 37 of them. There is so much
here that it’s really hard to write up a summary for it. Included in this
article are maps for almost every kind of immigration data you could wish for,
maps by county, maps by state, maps by nation; it deals with slavery, past and
present, immigrants sorted by impetus, location, time, and even has a mention
for the most famous metal immigrant of all, Lady Liberty herself. My favorite I
think is number eleven, listed as ‘An insanely detailed map of immigrants in America
from 1903’ which features ethnic groups as obscure as Teutonic (my people!),
Iberic, and Mongolic, and then turns right around and racially stereotypes the
latter two groups as having ‘poorer mental and physical equipment’ than some
others listed. Just enjoy this one, it’s truly an exploration into all the
differing ways immigrants and immigration can be depicted in cartographic form.
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