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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Foreign migration has also passed over Rust Belt cities in favor of the Sun Belt and Northeast. Detroit's foreign-born population peaked in the 1930s and pretty much never rebounded* after that. NYC also had a peak in the 1930s but it eventually rebounded after a plateau in the 1970s. Since 2000 NYC has been above its previous 1930 peak. The 1930s peak in foreign-born population in NYC and Detroit coincided with a nationwide peak in foreign-born population.
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Agreed, but I'd use metro numbers. I bet 90%+ of immigrants to Metro Detroit aren't headed to the city proper.
Detroit actually isn't a horrible immigration laggard. It attracts far more proportionally than Cleveland, Cincy, St. Louis, Indy, Pittsburgh and the like. Obviously the huge Arab population, and the auto industry is thick with foreign/expat engineers.
But certainly nothing like the legacy coastal cities or the Sunbelt. And nowhere nearly enough to make up for the reversal of the Great Migration.