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This is a great graph. I love videos like this. One thing missing is migration out of the United States. For much of the video, the largest source of immigra

This is a great graph. I love videos like this. One thing missing is migration out of the United States. For much of the video, the largest source of immigrants is Canada. Surely the US Canadian border is a two way street. I'd expect migrations between the US and Canada to roughly balance out. And as much as we Americans like to think of ourselves as living in the promised land, there are a significant number of immigrants who arrived on US shores, decided after a few years that it didn't live up to expectations, and then went back to their country of origin.

Mediterraneo10 8y ago
"A significant number of immigrants who arrived on US shores, decided after a few years that it didn't live up to expectations, and then went back to their country of origin." Often it wasn’t that people were disappointed in the USA, it’s that they only planned to be there temporarily. That is a pretty common story in the Balkans. Great-grandfather went to the USA, worked his ass off for a couple of decades max, and then came back to the old country and built a mighty house in his native village. And while in the USA, great-grandfather did some terribly isolated job like shepherding, or lived solely in an immigrant bubble, which meant that he never did learn English.