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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.