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by zhemao 3209 days ago
Pretty sure GP means the mass emigration of Europeans to North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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What does this have to do with the article? People (all people) fled violence, hunger and death that came from a series of conflicts so dire that some populations haven't fully recovered still.

Add to that incredible amounts of political violence at the dawn of the 20th century, and you have the immigration flows. Similar thing happened when the Soviet block collapsed and economic/political strife spilled out.