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The Old South's New Face
Kirp, David L. | June 26, 2000 issue

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Virtually overnight, Dalton's population has been remade. The 1990 census reported that 6 percent of the residents were Latino, 10 percent African-American and the rest white. Now the Immigration and Naturalization Services estimates that at least one-third of the population is Hispanic, most of them Mexican. While Hispanic migrant workers have long been an American fixture, this generation behaves very differently. Workers are bringing their families with them who are staying with them. Nowhere is this change more visible than in Georgia and the reaction has sometimes been nasty. Four Atlanta suburbs in Newt Gingrich/Bob Barr country have adopted ordinances requiring that commercial signs be predominantly in English.

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POPULATION; MIGRANT labor; HISPANIC Americans; EMPLOYEES; FAMILY; DALTON (Ga.); GEORGIA; UNITED States
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