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Originally Posted by Medusa99
15 years ago Utah was white. It was extremely rare to see anyone of any color but white (except for some odd reason, Tongans) outside of Salt Lake. We have a lot of immigrants now, mostly Hispanic. Utah is slowly, slowly becoming less homogenized. I still don't know why they want to live here though. I sure as hell don't want to.
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The reasons are strictly economic. A lot of immigrant Latino families in California, legal or otherwise, hear from friends and relatives in Utah that they could afford to rent a house of their own on service industry wages, maybe even someday buy. That's not possible in California. So they follow their relatives who are already there and stay with them a while while they get established.
I've heard of this happening as a general thing, and did see it happen once personally with a family I know.