This is probably because people from those ethnic backgrounds were more likely to come to the U.S. through refugee programs.

Their kids are from Chicago and genetics have no play in that - but those who moved here from warmer climes, well they remember warmer climes. My mom complained about the winter for nearly 60yrs after moving up here from Memphis.

I wouldn't doubt that when you add the entire metro up, there are more expat Japanese in Detroit than anywhere else in the Midwest. But I've been told repeatedly by Honda counterparts that Dublin has the highest concentration. I could see that too; there are entire subdivisions in Dublin that are ~50% Japanese expats. Multiple language schools for kids to go to on the weekend. Wholesale importers working with major sogo sosha / trading companies. All the daily life infrastructure you'd find in the other major expat Japanese communities (Singapore comes to mind).

And it all just stood out so much more because Dublin, while definitely a nice place, is still just a run-of-the-mill suburb of less than 50,000. The Japanese presence is that much more visible.

Totally true, unless - and this is a big "unless" - the returnee / nikkei / kikokushijo is already successful abroad. Then Japan enthusiastically embraces the nikkei like a conquering hero. And my industry will find a way to plaster said nikkei's face on every product imaginable. Like Naomi Osaka. It's the height of hypocrisy.

My wife is a kikokushijo and she basically hates Japan. Except the food. I'm with her on that one; you can clock Japanese culture for a lot of things, but food is not one of them. I couldn't go back to life without grilled salmon and miso for Saturday breakfast. :slob:

In Florida, I think Orlando has a sizable Filipino community. Miami never did have a large community of any Asian group.

LA's S. Asian community is fairly small for a major metropolitan area and also seems to be very spread out rather than concentrated in one area other than Artesia. Even San Diego seems to have larger community. There are some very small S. Asian communities around Warner Center in the Valley and along Venice blvd. near Culver City.

Could be that LA isn't that significant of a tech hub.

Perhaps LA might in the future.

^ The numbers show that San Diego County and the LA CSA (roughly 5.5 times larger) essentially have an identical share of Indians (and SD has a thriving biotech economy). In fact, Irvine (population 275,000) is home to an Indian population (6% share) that numbers slightly less than half of SD County's total.

But on a slightly un/related note, the numbers do illustrate that SD's extremely Filipino... even more so than the Bay Area.

https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/...prodType=table

Despite all the hype about Silicon Beach LA's tech sector is fairly small. San Diego and Irvine are more significant as tech hubs for Socal.

And what tech industry it does have is more connected to the entertainment industry such as Amazon Studios.

^ Okay? Talk about a red herring argument. I was just debunking your theory about Indian population vis-a-vis tech economy, and used an example you gave to do it. Boston's another example... smaller Indian population than Dallas and Houston, two cities that aren't really "tech hubs."

It depends on the city. The Indian communities in Chincago and NYC metro were already well established while most of the recent growth is due to H1b Tech Visas and in the Bay Area there really wasn't a major community until the 90s.

NYC seems to have the only really sizeable working class South Asian population among major US cities.

Orlando also has a lot of Vietnamese too and Orlando for some reason attracts a lot of Asians compared to Miami.

California, and more specifically, the Bay Area, may have had a lot of recent growth (and perhaps a higher share from recent growth), but it's a bit reaching to claim the Chicago or NYC metro was more well-established than the West coasters in this regard.

There were already thousands of Sikhs living in California over 100 years ago.

The first Indian American and Asian American in general to be elected to congress came from California's early Indian/South Asian community.

Dalip Singh Saund (September 20, 1899 – April 22, 1973) was an American politician who was a member of the United States House of Representatives. He served the 29th District of California from January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1963. He was the first Sikh American, the first Asian American, the first Indian American and the first member of a non-Abrahamic faith to be elected to Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalip_Singh_Saund

https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/echo...dom/title-page

San Francisco in the 1910s to late 1940s even was the headquarters of an Indian revolutionary movement (albeit one that failed in its goals) that included Punjabi migrant workers and intellectuals and students in the US and abroad trying to fight for India's independence against what was then British colonial rule.

NorCal and SoCal alike have had South Asians long before any IT boom.

https://medium.com/secret-desi-history

http://religionclasss2014.blogspot.c...s-angeles.html

i was surprised to see orlando has viettown strip, not unlike northeast atlanta/chamblee.

I'm not sure if Boston is really a "tech hub", though. Yeah, it's a massive research/innovation hub, but the major tech firms don't have a big presence. Traditional firms like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Oracle, Cisco and new firms like Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, don't have much of a presence, meaning there isn't tremendous need for H-1B visas.

In contrast, Silicon Valley has a gigantic demand for H-1B, hence the massive Indian population around San Jose.

Odd take, since I’ve never seen Boston described as being anything other than a tech hub. Its industry is definitely more health-based and less IT, social media, and entertainment, that’s for sure.

“Tech” is a really broad-based term these days, and I’ve noticed that it’s often used in the context of describing cities with an educated workforce or startups receiving VC funding.

In the former case, DC, Denver, Austin, etc. are supposedly “tech hubs,” while LA less so. But we gave birth to the Internet, was a player in early social media (MySpace), invented “Stories” through Snapchat before Instagram hijacked it, started the scooter revolution through Bird, and are home to SpaceX, whose plan is to launch 42,000 satellites to provide high-speed Internet service worldwide.

Half true. UCLA was one of the first two nodes, and SRI in Menlo Park (Bay Area) was the other. The relevance isn't the nodes, but the connection between the two, and because that was obviously simultaneous, neither locale has a better claim to being the 'birthplace' of the Internet than the other one does.

Fair enough. Point being, I don’t think LA gets enough credit for its tech contributions. Name one notable tech-related trend a la Stories or Bird or SpaceX that NYC, Boston, or Austin has produced in recent memory. LOL at the WeWork (is that even tech?) IPO disaster.

Your state invented the freaking internet.

The internet.

"Los Angeles' high-tech employment increased 14.7 percent during 2016 and 2017 compared with a 13.5 percent rise during the prior two-year period"

http://www.cbre.us/people-and-office...-office-growth