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		taopao on Feb 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Leaving Google eevilspock: Actually, most people in Seattle are recent arrivals, irrespective of national origin. "Of the people living Seattle itself, only 37% were born in WA, 44% another state, and 19% another country according to the 2006 census." http://www.city-data.com/forum/seattle-area/281766-transplan... http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/NPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=1...

seanmcdirmid on Feb 20, 2014 [–]

Ya, I was born in Portland myself, though my dad is from walla walla and my mom is from Ketchikan. Seattle is the capital of basically the entire northwest, from Prudhoe Bay to Grants Pass, all the way east into Idaho and Montana.

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