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Most Common Country of Birth for Foreign-Born Residents (excluding Mexico), by State. (lemmy.world)
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[–] mercano@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

The Philippines were a US territory from 1898 to 1946. People born there in that era were non-citizen US nationals, similar to people born in Samoa today, which eased the bureaucratic hurdles to move to the US.