Twenty percent of Nashville is Illegals? Sorry don't buy it.
OK, that's a rough estimate. But you can't use the 2000 census as a baseline - the growth in Nashville since then has rivaled Houston's growth in the late 70's / early 80's. I'd say Nashville's population is pretty close to 750,000 and will probably be up to a million by 2010. And that doesn't include the "donut" counties, which are growing even faster.
Not that I'm happy about it. Too many Yankees and Californians (along with all the illegals) for my liking. Nissan just moved their North American HQ here, so we'll be getting a few thousand MORE Californians! But the good thing about this is that our economy is on fire here. There are FOUR major high-rise condo construction sites within a mile of where I work. It's just nuts.
But I'll concede that I don't KNOW that there a 100,000 illegals in Nashville. Driving in south Nashville sure makes it look that way, though.
"Twenty percent of Nashville is Illegals? Sorry don't buy it."
Five percent of NC. Over eight million population, over 400,000 illegal aliens, and more every day.