Talk:Perth Amboy, New Jersey

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New Jersey is the best town on the wold My name is Mario, i am from portugal and a love Perth Amboy

Mario, New Jersey é um estado, não uma vila. (Translation: Mario, New Jersey is a state, not a town.) Nelson Ricardo 16:51, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] There are a lot of Portuguese people

Indeed, perhaps you can work that into the article. Nelson Ricardo 16:51, Jan 8, 2005 (UTC)

Why was all the historical information delected from this article? "elbow of land"? because it's wrong; Perth is from Perth, Scotland. yea martinez

Just to set the record straight, the name "Perth" came from the Earl of Perth, not from Perth, Scotland. My source for this information is the City of Perth Amboy website located at: http://www.ci.perthamboy.nj.us/html/city_history.html

[edit] The Demographics make no sense

In 2000, 27.79% of Perth Amboy residents identified as being of Puerto Rican ancestry, the fifth highest concentration of Puerto Ricans on the U.S. mainland[1]. In 2000, 18.81% of Perth Amboy residents identified themselves as being of Dominican ancestry, the third highest concentration in the country of Dominicans in the United States after Haverstraw, New York and Lawrence, Massachusetts[2]. However due to the increasing immigration of Dominicans since the 2000 census and the likely number of Dominicans in the U.S. illegally who were not counted, the actual percentage of Dominicans in Perth Amboy is estimated in 60 percent. [citation needed]

I think you mean percentages there is no way that the information i marked in bold is correct.

They may well overlap; but I don't see why the information bolded is obviously impossible. The last sentence is unsourced speculation, and I removed it. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The stat is about percentages. Obviously if you were looking at raw numbers, the biggest cities would have the most of almost every ancestry group and it'd be a worthless stat. Also, if you're thinking that Perth Amboy Puerto Rican and Dominican populations really aren't anything special, if you get out of the NY area, there really aren't that many. They're mostly confined to the Northeast and Florida (although they are moving out to places like Lancaster, they're not all over the Midwest or West Coast yet). Passdoubt | Talk 19:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The two statements regarding percentages of Puerto Rican and Dominican ancestry are directly derived from the sources provided. The rankings are based on percentage of population in communities where at least 1,000 residents identified their ancestry. There may well be communities that have higher absolute numbers of Puerto Rican or Dominican residents, but that's not what is being indicated. The statement re changes since 2000 and illegal residents is entirely unsupported and will be removed. Alansohn 19:31, 5 January 2007 (UTC)