Though the number of Dominican migrants to the U.S. between the early 1970’s and mid 1980’s was rather low, totaling close to 350,000, it was a boom of migration within a ten year period that solidified the presence of Dominicans in the United States. Between the year 1990 and 2000 the population of Dominicans increased from 348,000 to 692,000 people. And from the years 2000 to 2004 alone the population of Dominicans once again soared, as there was an increase from 692,000 to more than one million registered Dominicans living in the United States.

       Of these 1,051,032 Dominicans more than half, 500,061, reside in the state of New York. New Jersey also has a large Dominican population with more than 115,000 Dominicans, followed by Florida with 72,000 Dominicans. Dominican enclaves can also be found in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Texas, California, Illinois, Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and many other states.

   Remittances from  Dominicans in the U.S. are at an estimated 2 billion dollars a year, second only to El Salvadorian remittances, which indicates a strong connection to the land of origin.  

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