Haha, I have an Alien Number so I'm familiar with that. "Transplant" as the word for "immigrant" is pretty common in coastal California. Here are a few examples that should illustrate:

* The Bold Italic[0] - a popular San Francisco essay magazine talking about transplants

* Eric Adams is quoted by the WaPo prior to announcing his candidacy for mayor[1] (he was eventually elected mayor):

> “Go back to Iowa,” Adams, who is expected to be a top Democratic contender in New York’s 2021 mayoral race, told transplants. “You go back to Ohio! New York City belongs to the people that [were] here and made New York City what it is.”

* Great Replacement Theory is reframed[2]:

> ...multi-decades-old Black businesses and Black-owned or traditionally Black folk-rented homes are being replaced by a new population–some call them transplants.

I think it's pretty common lingo these days on the left. If you ask an LLM what a "transplant" is in the context of people, it can easily describe the term[3]. I say that only to say that it is commonly enough used as such that it is recognizable.

0: https://www.thebolditalic.com/the-last-black-man-in-san-fran...

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/01/21/adams-brook...

2: https://ourtimepress.com/say-it-aint-so-developers-target-sm...

3: https://claude.ai/share/bf6cfb17-314a-4e4b-b3eb-e99bbed07e86

It is OK to simply admit that you didn't understand the context in which "transplant" was used and its (ir)relevance to this particular thread. To post three separate replies where you are reaching for a way to avoid admitting this by concocting some fantastical left-right difference, is not convincing anyone otherwise.