Somali Migration to Maine: it’s the welfare magnet, stupid

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Where else have you heard something similar to this except for the limited migration which isn't quite overwhelming their same race predecessors?

They were originally resettled with American blacks and that wasn’t going so well...

In their exodus, they say they are looking for peace and quiet, cheaper housing, a more benevolent welfare system, better schools and a place to raise their children — families of seven or more are common —with fewer perils and temptations. That they are leaving a metro area renowned as an African-American mecca to resettle in Maine, home to fewer than 7,000 blacks in 2000, is less a matter of irony than intent, given the prickly state of their relations with African-Americans and a desire to protect their children from assimilating too quickly.