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Though, the bulk of Pennsylvania's Puerto Rican population is in the southeastern section of the state, other areas including the Scranton-Wilkes Barre-Hazleton area and the Poconos in northeastern Pennsylvania, as well as the Pittsburgh area, New Castle, and Erie in western Pennsylvania also have sizeable Puerto Rican populations present.
In the 1920s, labor recruiters in Philadelphia focused on attracting Puerto Ricans because they were already U.S. citizens: the Immigration Act of 1924 had restricted immigration into the U.S. [5] In the early 20th Century, due to inexpensive housing and the proximity to employment, concentrations of Puerto Ricans moved to Northern Liberties ...
Puerto Rican migration trends since 2006 have been highly complex: New York State gained more Puerto Rican migrants from Puerto Rico (31% of the mainland total) as well as from elsewhere on the mainland (20% of interstate moves) between 2006 and 2012 than any other U.S. state, in absolute numbers, even while the southern United States gained ...
Latino voters in the battleground state, especially those who are of Puerto Rican descent, are less likely to pledge their unconditional loyalty to specific presidential candidates compared with ...
Harris did beat Trump in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh County — host to Allentown, a key hub for the state’s Puerto Rican community — but she trailed President Biden’s 2020 performance there by ...
There were about 600,000 eligible Latino voters in Pennsylvania, including a significant Puerto Rican population [Getty Images] Exit polls suggested Latinos in Pennsylvania amounted to about 5% of ...
Proportion of Americans who are Hispanic or Latino in each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census ... Pennsylvania ...
The Keystone State’s nearly 500,000-person Puerto Rican population is concentrated in North Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, Reading and Hazleton. ... a Democratic running for Pennsylvania state ...