qvarizona wrote:PS I figure that with a new subject line mentioning the 
colonial perspective,
> I can ignore my last post, in which I apologized for getting into the immigration
> discussion.   
>   

Joanne:

There was no need to apologize. Virginia not only had a sizable 
foreign-born population in the colonial era, but it does now as well. 
The 1990 data in Historical Statistics of the US indicate that, in 
absolute terms, Virginia had more foreign-born residents than did 
Arizona , though in percentage terms Arizona was slightly ahead (5% in 
VA, 7.6% in AZ). Figures for 2000 or even more recent years probably 
show greater increases for Arizona than for Virginia, but that doesn't 
make the subject "out of bounds" for a Virginia history list.

Doug Deal
History/SUNY Oswego