Why Do So Many Somalis Live In Minnesota. After civil war broke out in 1988, resulting in the 1991 overthrow of the dictatorship government, many somalis fled to neighboring african countries and. Around 150,000 somalis, both refugees and nonrefugees, live in the united states, according to u.n.
Thirty years later, minnesota is home to the largest concentration of somali. That estimate comes from new survey data released today by the u.s.