Immigrants in the South

USA Today reports that the South is rising again, this time as a population magnet for immigrants who come for the same reasons that pull Americans there from other states: the warm climate, jobs and cheaper housing, according to an analysis of Census estimates out today. More than half of the population growth in the USA in the past year occurred in southern states. The July 1 estimates also are the first to reflect Hurricane Katrina’s devastation: Louisiana suffered a staggering net loss of 219,563 people, the largest annual decline in any state’s population since troops were deployed during World War II.  Click here for the story. 

According to one blog reader, “this is the crux of the immigration problem, and why it is a political issue – the brown Catholic Mexicans are moving to white, Protestant Red States.”  Any thoughts?

KJ