A sunny place for shady people. Some may remain for only a few years, but others leave a legacy of generation after generation of families. No inhabitant can claim to be truly native. The Caribs and Arawaks have been extinct for centuries. All of the populace were either born elsewhere or trace their ancestry to some other place.
None are truly indigenous to the islands.
It is ironic that several proposed Constitutions have failed to gain acceptance by the USVI electorate because of disagreement over who is and who is not a USVI citizen. Everyone knows your ancestry is not founded here. The chance of geographic location of one's mother on the date of birth is of little consequence in a society composed entirely of foreigners. To claim greater rights than one's forefathers is risky, indeed. They were imported, under bond, into the USVI during the boom of the 1960's, to build, manufacture and become the private sector work force.