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To: conservativejud
North Carolina - El Norte Carolina

With the Blue Ridge mountains to the west and the beaches of the Outer Banks to the east, North Carolina has suddenly become The Destination for new Latino immigrants. Since the last census, the Triangle (and Raleigh’s Wake County in particular) has experienced a nearly 500 percent increase in its Hispanic population of mostly Mexicans. It started with the economic boom of the ’90s and huge demands for unskilled labor in the construction, poultry and meat-processing, and hospitality industries. That’s transforming what used to be a black-white duopoly into an increasingly diverse area. Of the Triangle’s 1,031,600 residents, about 5 percent are Hispanic. That sounds tiny, but the area’s receiving 10,000 new arrivals annually.

http://www.latinoforum.com/archives/000353.html
16 posted on 02/09/2004 6:57:19 PM PST by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: philetus
Actually, it's Carolina del Norte. Jeez, they can't even speak proper Spanish.
22 posted on 02/09/2004 7:07:44 PM PST by wimpycat ("Black holes are where God divided by zero.")
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