No single country of origin dominated the flow. The report is in line with recent census figures showing that the region's growth has been powered by its increasing black, Hispanic and Asian populations. But the census numbers were broad racial and ethnic categories and included U.S.-born minorities. The Brookings study offers a far more finely drawn portrait of recent immigrants. Drawn by jobs, good schools and recommendations from relatives and friends, people such as Prasanthi Tipperaju are shunning the tradition in which U.S. immigrants have first headed to ethnic enclaves.
People are friendly.
If you're friendly to them, they're friendly to you. It doesn't have to be your own community. Not only do Washington's new immigrants prefer the suburbs, but 46 percent of those who arrived legally from 1990 to 1998 moved to communities outside the Beltway, the study found. Then he moved to Reston for a job at a consulting firm. Other newcomers follow friends orrelatives who have settled in the outer suburbs.