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How is literacy defined here? If it’s English proficiency, it might explain “illiteracy” in southern states.
Minnesota has a huge immigrant population and still has the second-highest rate on the map, so maybe not.
They're Hmong immigrants though, who are eager to assimilate into American culture, and are mostly 1st and 2nd generation Americans now.
In 2020, about 8% of Minnesotans were foreign-born
Page includes a chart: IMMIGRANT GROUPSORT DESCENDING POPULATION
All immigrants 470,387
Burmese immigrants 12,480
Canadian immigrants 11,179
Chinese immigrants 17,746
Ecuadorian immigrants 6,703
Ethiopian immigrants 22,453
Filipino immigrants 9,936
German immigrants 6,811
Guatemalan immigrants 6,619
Hmong immigrants 29,034I did not include the whole chart.
I am only pushing back on the implication about the immigrants in Minnesota being only Hmong. I have no idea about literacy in any of those countries.
Oh wow, I didn't realize there are so many other groups. I wonder why some of them choose Minnesota of all places. I know why the Hmong are there, but Minnesota seems like an odd match for some of those other groups. At least it's a new life experience and a change of scenery!