many jewish immigrants settled in new your city, while most chinese settled in california, and scandinavians settled in the midwest. What is one reason for these patterns of settlement

This situation has many ways to be explained. The most succesful is the one that states that migratory waves are random at first (they can be attributed to climatic issues, for example), and then the first populations start to attract successive migration waves, as a situation of familiarity is created, which allows a faster and more efficient insertion in the new country.

Many Jewish immigrants settled in New York city, while most Chinese settled in the California, and Scandinavians settled in the midwest. One reason for these patterns of settlement was:::

immigrants wanted to be with others from their native country.