Florida top destination for Puerto Ricans moving last year

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Puerto Rico already was losing people before the September 2017 blow from Maria.

Florida was the top destination for Puerto Ricans moving to the U.S. mainland last year in the aftermath of the devastation left by Hurricane Maria.

Figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show that a third of the 133,500 Puerto Ricans who moved to the U.S. mainland last year went to the Sunshine State.

Other states where large numbers of Puerto Ricans settled last year were Pennsylvania, Texas and New York.

Puerto Rico already was losing people before the September 2017 blow from Maria. The island had been struggling through a recession, and the hurricane prompted tens of thousands of people to head for the mainland.

The bureau says the number of Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland in 2018 jumped by a third over the previous year.

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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.

Associated Press


One comment

  • DisplacedCTYankee

    September 27, 2019 at 8:51 am

    My advice to Puerto Ricans: keep right on moving, north, to a state where people welcome you as citizens, not just more “people of color.”

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