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AP U.S. History 2.4 Period 9: 1980-Present. In the 1990s and 2000s, immigration patterns largely tended to be...what?
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AP U.S. History 2.4 Period 9: 1980-Present. In the 1990s and 2000s, immigration patterns largely tended to be...what?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by immigration patterns,
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the design of every handmaid ancestral quilt.
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Yeah. All right, here's the excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
Full Transcript
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[ mumbling continues ]
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... by Congress and Men in Black.
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Okay, and the question:
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In the 1990s and 2000s,
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immigration patterns largely tended to be... what?
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And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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All right. Moving to another country is a pretty big deal.
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There's a new language, new culture, new reality shows.
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Well, maybe not so much the last one.
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Let's see which answer best captures the kind of transition
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made by immigrants to the U.S. in the last few decades.
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In the 1990s and 2000s, were immigration patterns
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A - located primarily in the American South?
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Well, the South might be the center of American hospitality,
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but the region sees relatively few immigrants
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compared to the rest of the country.
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Same goes for the Midwest. And that knocks out A and D.
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Were immigration patterns at this time B -
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evenly distributed across the country?
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Well, no, quite the opposite, actually.
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If you move to a new country, you'd probably wanna see some
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familiar faces and speak your old language, right?
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So you're probably gonna settle wherever you
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can get that authentic curry biryani or, uh,
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chorizo empanada... Anyway,
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it means that in the 1990s and 2000s,
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immigration patterns largely tended to be
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C - clustered in a few states.
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In general, immigrants tend to settle among their countrymen and women,
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which is why many cities include neighborhoods like
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Chinatown or Little Italy.
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Makes sense, right? As a result,
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places that experience high levels of immigration, like California and New York,
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often continue to receive immigrants.
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So C is the correct answer.
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And you know, if Americans decide to move abroad, well,
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maybe that means they've got Little Americas in countries all over the world, too.
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Yeah, like that. [ chuckles ]
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