Not from around here, are ya?

Atlanta Metro’s Diversity:45%

Twin Cities: not even 20%.

Yet on every block I saw women in veils. The Sudanese refugee community is visible just about everywhere, from flowing wardrobes to Halal butcher shops.

State demographer Tom Gillaspy gave these numbers, and a fascinating reason for some of the difference between Atlanta and the Twins. Not just casseroles and snow, either.

In the Twin Cities, people claim their family’s country of origin. 36% say they’re German. Another 25% say Scandinavian. Yet another 20 percent say English or Irish.

In Atlanta, by contrast, the ethnic or ‘old country’ roots don’t have the same claim. The answers were in the single digits to English, Irish, German ancestries.

The largest answer by far? 60% of Atlantans said their immigrant origins are ‘other.’

I’M FROM OTHER, THANKS.