Jersey City came a long way to win the multi-cultural title | Quigley
NJ.com
3/16/2021
Joan Quigley, nj.com
Jersey City is the most multicultural city in America, according to a recent report from WalletHub. Some folks from Stockton, California, and New York City might disagree. Until they get here and look around anyway.
But it hasn’t always been this way.
Dutch were the first newcomers to the area we call New Jersey, followed by English Quakers around 1670. By 1700 New Jersey’s population was nearly 15,000. Mostly they were English Puritans, and their religion and culture absorbed the few remaining Dutch and some new Swedish settlers.