Connecticut

"Connecticut is a state of remarkable ethnic and racial diversity as well. Recent bitter battles over Sunday blue laws indicate the continued vitality of old Yankee values and traditions; yet for over eighty years Connecticut has had one of the highest percentages of foreign-born inhabitants of any state in the nation. The presence today of substantial communities of Polish, Italian, Portuguese and French-Canadian immigrants ensures that the percentage of foreign born in Connecticut’s population remains almost double the national average. A dramatic migration to Connecticut in recent years has swelled its Hispanic population. Connecticut’s Black population, too, is more than double the percentage of any other New England state. Ethnic and racial diversity has brought great strength to the state: it has also, upon occasion, brought social tension and cultural conflict." -- Connecticut to 1763

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