It is weird how certain groups of people settle in our country that is not what we would normally think would be geographically like their former countries.

For example: When I was in Iraq, most of our interpreters were naturalized citizens living in the U.S., but all were from Michigan, Detroit area. Apparently, there is a very large contingent of Iraqis, both Muslim and Christian Iraqis, living there. I would have thought they would have settled down in like Phoenix, where the blast oven heat is what they are accustomed to.