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To: Clemenza
Another example:

Greensboro, North Carolina. It's no secret the Triad's Hispanic population is growing. But recent census numbers show it's growing faster than you may think - third-fastest of anywhere in the nation, first when only the largest regions are considered....

The 2000 Census counted 62,210, a nine-fold increase.

Greensboro Crime Report Look at the charts. In most categories the rates are higher than the national average.

It's really hard sometimes to get the rates. Most of these communities try to hide any rise in crime for fear of people not coming there or those that are there already might leave.

33 posted on 08/18/2005 3:54:11 PM PDT by raybbr
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To: raybbr
Sounds like what happened in the northeast and midwest when the blacks came up from the south. Nevertheless, NYC has experience several waves of Hispanic immigration, with crime only increasing from the 1950s through the 1980s. The Mexicans only started arriving in the 1990s and crime has gone down.

The communities you cited are typically those with aging populations that lacked a "youthful element" until the Mexicans/Central Americans came along. Scranton, Norristown, and Hazleton Pennsylvania were virtually open-air senior citizen centers as young Americans had no desire to live there. Now all of these communities have Mexicans and youth gangs.

34 posted on 08/18/2005 3:57:29 PM PDT by Clemenza (Pirro is Hillary with an (R))
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