Press
Release
October 27, 2008
Contact: Michelle Mittelstadt
202-266-1910
mmittelstadt@migrationpolicy.org
WASHINGTON – With the November 4th election just days
away, the Migration Policy Institute is providing election profiles
online that examine voter registration by country of birth. The
fact sheets provide breakdowns for foreign-born citizens in each
state and the size of their vote during the 2004 general election.
The
election profiles also outline the size and growth of the foreign-born
population (citizen and non-citizen) as a share of each state’s
total population, and provide voter breakdowns by ethnicity.
Election fact sheets for all 50 states
and the District of Columbia are available online at: www.migrationpolicy.org/voter_factsheets.php.
The
findings are based on data from the Census Bureau’s 2006
American Community Survey; the Federal Election Commission, the
Migration Policy Institute Data Hub and the Pew Hispanic Center.
For
more state-by-state information on the foreign born, including
income, workforce, education, language, demographic and country
of origin data, please visit the MPI
Data Hub at www.migrationinformation.org/datahub
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The Migration Policy Institute is an independent,
non-partisan, non-profit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated
to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides
analysis, development and evaluation of migration and refugee
policies at the local, national and international levels. |
