They Keep Coming! Everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From the Economist (print edition);

“The once lily-white Midwest and the once black-and-white South are becoming prime places for immigrants (eight of the ten states with the biggest growth in the foreign-born Mexican population are in the South, for instance). There are thriving Latino enclaves in such unlikely places as Dalton, Georgia; Garden City, Kansas; Storm Lake, Iowa and Nashville, Tennessee. Between the 1990 and 2000 censuses, the Hispanic population of Franklin County, Alabama, has grown by 2,193% and Gordon County, Georgia, by 1,534%. This demographic revolution—analysed in fascinating detail in ‘New Faces in New Places, a book edited by Princeton University’s Douglas Massey and just published by the Russell Sage Foundation—goes a long way towards explaining why immigration has become such an explosive issue in national politics. Large numbers of Americans who have never encountered Latinos except in Hollywood are now coming face-to-face with them. And large numbers of poor whites and poor blacks across the country find themselves having to compete with immigrants who are willing to work for lower wages in worse conditions. Small towns across the country are now encountering casual labourers hanging out on street corners and school children who cannot speak English.”

I look forward to reading Doug Massey’s new book.  In my book, he is one of the most perceptive immigration scholars in the United States.

KJ