Puerto Ricans have a long history in Philadelphia although in the early 1900's their numbers were much smaller compared New York. The Puerto Rican population grew when manufacturing brought them in in the post-WWII migration of the 1940's. Many Puerto Ricans grow up being taught that they're a mixture of three races: black, white and indigenous. Census, a majority of Puerto Ricans choose 'white' as their only race.
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