No shock at all; northeast NJ (my area) is packed with foreigners and unassimilated ethnic minorities. My town’s Peruvian Day parade dwarfs our St. Patrick’s Day parade (for which we had been renowned in the past). Our area was settled long before the American Revolution, the town is named after a Civil War general, and today it is packed with people who don’t speak English.
I’m in Central NJ. If you want some curry, take a road trip and visit me. Since the millennium, every strip mall has an Indian restaurant. Almost all my doctors now are Indian too.
When i was a kid this area was very Republican. Now it’s very Democratic. I don’t know where the Republicans went. In my voting district there are only 212 for 10,000 Dems.
“Un-Assimilated” is the key. I wonder how many of those Peruvian immigrants are placing men into any branch of the service. If it is like the Brazilian & Haitian areas where I live, the answer is virtually none. I talk to recruiters every week, and all services tell me that aside from Asian areas, looking for service members in immigrant communities is useless.