Mainstream Memphis often misses connection with city's Spanish-speaking subculture

The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | Sunday, September 23, 2007 | Daniel Connolly

[archy]

Estimates of the metro area's Hispanic population range from 34,000 to 100,000, and about one in 10 babies born in Shelby County last year was Hispanic.

It was circa 45,000-50,000 in 2000, the year of the federal census. Officially, the Census counted 27,520 Hispanics in the Memphis MSA, a 239 per cent increase over 1990.

I left in May 2004, though I'd been working out of town for some time.

[Travis McGee]

Memphis will feature in my new book. It won’t be pretty after the New Madrid fault has broken loose.

[archy]

Memphis will feature in my new book. It won’t be pretty after the New Madrid fault has broken loose.

Mostly, it isn't particularly pretty before.

I assume you heard about the Bell South glitch at Memphis International yesterday, and the result to air traffic within a rough 250-mile radius, including that from the Northwest hub and FedEx?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Why is it when any person not born of the U.S. moves into a city or neighborhood all of a sudden the so called mainstream Media missed something important ?....They usually do miss something ! the thousands from other countries who moved into our towns and cities illegally Mexican or otherwise !

[Travis McGee]

That is a hub area isn’t it.