Migration Browse Topics Marriage, Family Pop. Projections Education Race, Ethnicity Income, Poverty Migration Foreign-Born Pop. While recent immigrants continue to cluster heavily in a few metropolitan areas and regions, domestic migrants are heading in other directions. Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, for example, feel more like traditional suburbs than either the suburbs or the cities in much of today's Northeast. And destinations in the Mountain West, such as Boise City, Idaho, and Provo, Utah, draw Californians who seek less dense and hectic surroundings.
Immigrant populations are far less likely to join the flow of suburb seekers.