Interesting study on Metro Detroit's foreign born population

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by Republic of Michigan

Chaldeans do not live in Hamtramck, there used to be a community and a church back in the 1950s - long gone. When they lived in Detroit, it was off 7 mile and Woodward, and they have all left that area too. They then moved to Oak Park and Southfield, and then migrations to Farmington Hills, West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake, Commerce on the West side, and Sterling Heights, Warren, and Shelby Township on the East side.
Chaldeans followed the Jewish Populations and Blacks from Detroit are following in same footprint. Meaning, Detroit to Oak Park, to Southfied, to West Bloomfield. All 3 groups have followed this trajectory.

Thank you that is interesting. A gal at work is Chaldean and said they have congregated in Hamtrammck and are a near majority. Perhaps she is wrong, pr maybe pulling my leg, but she seemed serious.

[leroythelion]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Thank you that is interesting. A gal at work is Chaldean and said they have congregated in Hamtrammck and are a near majority. Perhaps she is wrong, pr maybe pulling my leg, but she seemed serious.

The couple of Chaldeans I know grew up in Highland Park and moved to Novi in the 80s.

[less than usual]

They never said if it was Bloomfield or West Bloomfield on the sit-com but boy was it ever funny. Jill, Tim's wife, was a volunteer for the Bloomfield Library Board.

Originally Posted by Tex?Il?

I didn't know West Bloomfield was the specific setting for Home Improvement. I knew it was supposed to be Metro Detroit, but didn't think where. Interesting.

[Rudy saleh]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

Michigan tends to be very group up. The prevalent groups change, but different areas become known as the go to place for specific groups and they end up with the population heavily weighted in favor of that group. Often it is an area more than a specific city or town. For example large numbers of Jewish people seem to have collected in the Birmingham, Franklin Bloomfield, troy area. It is noticeable when you are in the areas because the stores and Churches (or synagogue, mosque, temple etc) are common where they type is only rarely seen in other areas.



Hamtramck has a very large Chaldean population, maybe a majority now. Canton has a large Indian (India indian) population. West Bloomfield has a large Korean Population (not a majority though). Novi is heavily populated with Karens. Taylor has Okies and Kentucky/Tennessee-ians. Central downriver is heavily Polish and slavic (look in a local phone book). Ferndale is younger, woker and far more LGBTQA. . . than most other communities. Ann Arbor is blue hair central. Bloomfield hills is old money while Birmingham is new money. River rouge and Ecorse - heavily people with no money. Fenton is for farmers. Holland is heavily Dutch. Detroit and inkster have primarily Black populations. SW Detroit mostly Mixican/Hispanic.


I am sure there are more areas know for different types of people, and I did not include the areas and groups already discussed int his thread, but we are a very groupie place.


I am not talking about foreign born, but groups of people withthe same cultural heritage, or the same social postiion/views/ or the same econimic status. I have never seen a place so segregated in so many different ways.

Chaldeans are not in Hamtramck and never have been. Hamtramck has a large Yemeni pop. Chaldeans live in Oakland and Macomb counties. They mostly live in West Bloomfield and Sterling Heights.

[44echo]

Originally Posted by less than usual

Houston also has the largest stretch of concrete paved stretch of highway on earth. Thirty seven lanes wide
going north south just outside George Bush Intercontinental Airport headed south towards Katy,Tx.

Google says you're mistaken (by 11 lanes). But it's still quite impressive.

[usroute10]

Originally Posted by Rudy saleh

Chaldeans are not in Hamtramck and never have been. Hamtramck has a large Yemeni pop. Chaldeans live in Oakland and Macomb counties. They mostly live in West Bloomfield and Sterling Heights.

I don't believe this is correct. See the excerpt from the Hamtramck Review on-line edition from 2012:

The trick is, the way the census is constructed, people of Arabic descent fall under the “white” designation, even though their countries are in Asia. Hamtramck has a substantial Chaldean population (referring today, essentially, to those Catholic former Iraqis), and a growing Yemeni population.

Hamtramck’s Census shows an ever-changing face | Hamtramck Review

Anecdotally, I worked for the now-defunct Nino Salvaggio's grocery store in Farmington Hills in the summer of 2000, and 1/2 the workforce was Chaldean. A few of those guys lived in Hamtramck.

[Coldjensens]

Originally Posted by usroute10

I don't believe this is correct. See the excerpt from the Hamtramck Review on-line edition from 2012:



Hamtramck’s Census shows an ever-changing face | Hamtramck Review

Anecdotally, I worked for the now-defunct Nino Salvaggio's grocery store in Farmington Hills in the summer of 2000, and 1/2 the workforce was Chaldean. A few of those guys lived in Hamtramck.

I work with a handful of Chaldeans. Most live in Hamtrammck, or their families do. They told me Hamtrammck is a Chaldean concentration area. A while back (2010 maybe?) I had heard that it was becoming heavily or primarily Chaldean, but I think things have changed again. More recently there was a lot of stink about them broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer every day over the City's PA system, so not Chaldean controlled anyway. I never heard what happened with the call to prayer controversy. I assume that they had to drop it.