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It turns out this tattoo shop - with its mix of out-of-staters and different races - is in some ways representative of what’s happening demographically in New Hampshire. Between 2010 and 2016, about 320,000 people moved from other states to New Hampshire, according to Kenneth Johnson, Senior Demographer at UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy. That was a slower pace than pre-Great Recession. But today, Johnson says, out-of-state migration is on the uptick again.

He also says this migration is changing the racial makeup of New Hampshire, which is still 90 percent white.

“The population of the state is becoming more diverse, relatively slowly, but it is,” Johnson says.

Johnson says Manchester - where one in five residents are minorities - is the second most diverse city in the state, after Nashua.