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"Joeseph P. Blow" <jpblow@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:02:37 -0700, greg3347 <theodoric3@lycos.com>
> wrote:
>
> >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
>
> You gonna take that tobacco picking job or maybe the one cleaning
> rooms at the local hotel, greg?
>
> Or is it that you know they've got a stronger work ethic than you and
> will make you look worse than your bigotry already does?

  If there were not jobs begging for people to take them, we would not have
immigrants.

  I have a house opposite a Xmas tree farm. The WASP owners work like dogs
on the land, but without a crew of Mexicans working with them, we would not
have our Xmas trees either.  They pay $9 an hour for the Mexicans, but could
pay local labor about $6, but there are no locals interested, nor do locals
have the skills.  Yes, Xmas trees are labor-intensive, but I tried to help
out at harvest time last year, and could not do the phyical labor.  It is
tough work.