Re: Mexicans to become North Carolina's largest minority

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From: greg3347
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:02

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On Oct 16, 2:45 pm, chicanohist...@yahoo.com wrote:
> http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR/MGArticle...
>
> Hispanics set to become area's largest minority group
>
> BY ANDREW MACKIE
> RECORD STAFF WRITER
> Saturday, October 13, 2007
>
> HICKORY -- In a little more than a decade, the Hickory area has been
> transformed by an influx of Latinos looking for a better life.
>
> >From industry to health, law enforcement to education, art to
>
> entertainment, our new neighbors are reshaping all aspects of life in
> the Unifour.
>
> This year, Hispanics likely will surpass blacks as the largest
> minority group in Catawba County. By 2008, the same will occur for the
> four-county Hickory metro.
>
> Some of the numbers are eye opening. An estimated 21,479 Hispanics
> lived in the Hickory region in 2006, up from nearly 14,000 in 2000,
> according to research by the Western Piedmont Council of Governments.
> That's a 55 percent increase.

Folks should get off their butts and start calling their Senators and
demand
that the border be sealed.

greg

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