New immigrants avoiding big cities, study finds

[Stephane Dumas]

I spotted this info at http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=179695 this article from Yahoo news http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100315/ts_csm/287667  I hope it isn't a Pandora box then I opened without knowledge 

New immigrants who once flocked to the large "gateway" cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Chicago are now heading for smaller metropolitan areas like Detroit and Minneapolis, Colorado Springs, Colo., Sarasota, Fla., and El Paso, Tex

Some readers in the Skyscraperpage forum was surprised to see Detroit as a destination. 

[Chris]

cheap housing, plus if you immigrate for economic reasons, even Detroit may be better than the country of origin.

[mightyace]

Yes, Nashville has a large, growing Hispanic community.

It also has a significant number of Iraqis, particularly Kurds.  I don't know about the later ones, but there was a voting site here in Nashville for Iraqi citizens living in the states in the first elections after Hussein was toppled.