Los puertorriqueños de Holyoke | |
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| Total population | |
| 44,826 (2010) | |
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| Puerto Rican Spanish, American English, New York City English |
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As of the 2010 census, Holyoke, Massachusetts had the largest Puerto Rican population, per capita, of any city in the United States outside Puerto Rico proper, with 47.7% or 44,826 residents being of Puerto Rican heritage, comprising 92.4% of all Latinos in the community.[1] From a combination of farming programs instituted by the US Department of Labor after World War II, and the housing and mills that characterized Holyoke prior to deindustrialization, Puerto Ricans began settling in the city in the mid-1950s, with many arriving during the wave of Puerto Rican migration to the Northeastern United States in the 1980s.[1][2] A combination of white flight as former generations of mill workers left the city, and a sustained influx of migrants in subsequent generations transformed the demographic from a minority of about 13% of the population in 1980,[3] to the largest single demographic by ancestry in a span of three decades.
In time the city has become a center of Puerto Rican culture on the mainland, with at least one member of the Senate of Puerto Rico being an alumnus of Holyoke Community College,[4] and the city being honored by both the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in the Chicago, and in New York City's National Puerto Rican Day Parade.[5][6]
- ^ a b "U.S. Census website". Retrieved August 30, 2013.
- ^ Moriarty, Jo-Ann (February 28, 1984). "Proulx appoints six Hispanic advisers". Springfield Union. Vol. CXXI, no. 48. Springfield, Mass. p. 1.
- ^ Latinos in Holyoke (Report). The Mauricio Gaston Institute, University of Massachusetts Boston. 1992. Archived from the original on June 21, 2018. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ^ "HON. LUIS DANIEL MUÑIZ CORTES" (in Spanish). Senado de Puerto Rico. Archived from the original on May 12, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
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- ^ Roman, Elizabeth (September 6, 2016). "Springfield, Holyoke honored by Chicago Puerto Rican Cultural Center". The Republican. Springfield, Mass. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016.
- ^ Roman, Elizabeth (March 6, 2018). "Springfield, Holyoke to be honored at Puerto Rican Day parade in New York". The Republican. Springfield, Mass. Archived from the original on March 6, 2018.
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