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Georgia tops nation in Hispanic growth
Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^
| Sept. 18, 2003
| MARK BIXLER
Posted on 09/18/2003 9:31:31 AM PDT by citizen
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To: doodad
On Buford Highway, near my office and a major mexican area, all the damn billboards are in spanish and don't bother to stop and converse with anyone in english. Damn billboards.
To: Kuksool
If Southern folks don't do something to stop the influx of illegal invadersWhat to do?
Writing your congressmen doesn't seem to be effective just now.
I think it's going to have to get much worse before this becomes a real national issue for the Sheeple...and by the it will be way too late.
The only thing that will get Congress' attention is losing their seats...like my tag-line says, I'm voting for Tom Tancredo.
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posted on
09/18/2003 9:56:12 AM PDT
by
citizen
(Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
To: All
Census shows white flight in Bibb, boom in Georgia's Hispanic population
From staff and wire reports
During the past two years, more white people have left Bibb County than any other county in the state. And more blacks have moved to Bibb than to any other Middle Georgia county, according to the latest census estimates.
While the U.S. Census Bureau computes hard numbers once a decade, each year the bureau also estimates population growth. The 2003 report, released today, includes the first county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin since the 2000 census.
Bibb County's total population grew by 937 people to 154,824, according to estimates. That includes a loss of 1,085 whites and a gain of 2,762 blacks and 41 Hispanics.
The new figures show that Hispanic immigrants have flooded to the South since 2000, many of them attracted by the growing region's surplus of low-paying jobs.
Hispanic populations have grown around the country, but fastest in the South, with Georgia leading the nation with 16.8 percent growth from 2000 to 2002, according to estimates.
Of the 10 states with the highest influx of Hispanics, six of them were in the South: Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia and Alabama.
In Middle Georgia, the largest number of Hispanics moved into Toombs County, which has an estimated 2,448 Hispanics - up 138 from two years ago. Toombs also has the third-largest Hispanic population in Middle Georgia, behind Houston's 3,319 and Bibb's 2,064.
The largest percentage increase in Middle Georgia Hispanic populations was in Bleckley County, where the Hispanic population grew 42.06 percent. The largest decline was in Jones, which dropped by 27.81 percent.
Hispanics were drawn to the South because it needed workers for manual labor in industries such as agriculture, construction, textiles and janitorial work, said Charles Gallagher, a sociology professor at Georgia State University.
"A toilet doesn't get flushed in a hotel, an onion doesn't get cut in a restaurant and a frame doesn't get built on a house without Latino labor," he said.
Following Georgia, Washington, D.C., had the second-highest Hispanic growth, at 16 percent. There were 15.7 percent more Hispanics in North Carolina, 15 percent more in Nevada and 13.9 percent more in Kentucky.
The migration of Hispanics from Latin America to the United States follows a pattern set by many other immigrant groups - spurred by poverty, they seek a new life and better wages in America, Gallagher said.
While Hispanics may make $6 or $7 an hour in labor-intense jobs in the United States, the American dream of social mobility may be out of reach for many of them, he said. That's because the higher-paying work requiring more education is already filled to capacity.
"This is as good as it gets for them," Gallagher said. "It's hard work, it's dangerous work, it's repetitious work. Folks who have been in the U.S. for a few generations, they won't work these jobs."
Longtime Georgia residents said Wednesday it was easy to see the increasing number of Hispanics in the state.
"How couldn't you notice?" asked Pauline Jenkins, as she waited at a bus stop in downtown Atlanta. "They've got a right to be here. Treat everybody fair, that's all I'm saying."
But William Worley worried that Hispanics would take over more blue-collar jobs.
"They'll work cheaper than the average American," said Worley, as he sat on a bench in Centennial Olympic Park. "I don't have anything against the Mexicans or Hispanics, but they make it harder for the rest of us to get jobs."
To: doodad
I am surprised the article made no reference to illegals wanting access to driver's licenses. There is a strong lobbying effort in Atlanta to get driver's licenses for illegals passed. So far the GA General Assembly is cool to that idea. Let's hope it stays that way.
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posted on
09/18/2003 9:59:43 AM PDT
by
Kuksool
To: Kuksool
"How couldn't you notice?" asked Pauline Jenkins, as she waited at a bus stop in downtown Atlanta. "They've got a right to be here. Treat everybody fair, that's all I'm saying." Pity no one asked her to explain where this right comes from.
To: citizen
I like how the sociologist plays up the racial tensions between whites and hispanics but makes no mention of the violence and discrimination that blacks have been heaping on hispanics since they started arriving 10 years ago. That is the real story.
To: citizen
"In California, there were no good jobs," she said in Spanish on Wednesday afternoon. "There are more jobs here."
Well, wud-do-ya-know? Ole Calif finally ran out of those menial jobs no one else will do.
We've been warning you open-borders types for years and you didn't listen. Well, here they come........................
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:14:09 AM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(government is the problem, not the solution!)
To: doodad
They will all speak fluent English in one generation. I employ several legal immigrants, some who are US citizens including a Cuban political exile. They all want to learn English, but will never learn it well. However their children are all fluent in English, and are somewhat successful in school and will be positive, productive additions to our country. This is generally the case with most permanent immigrants that I have encountered, whether they are from India, Turkey, Korea or Mexico.
To: conservativefromGa
"And so it begins. how long until Georgia is the east coast version of Kalifornia?"
It's probably not going to happen like that, because the whites in GA are so different from the ones in CA. A very large proportion of CA's problems come from the fact that the white populace is also pretty liberal and dumb. It's like CA and TX. There's similarites and there's big differences.
For instance, about 70% of Georgia's whites seem to be conservative in their voting habits, but only 45 or 50% of Californian whites seem to be that way.
To: martin_fierro
LOL, not really but still funny.
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:29:12 AM PDT
by
Major_Risktaker
(CNNCBSCastroCarterClintonsCrimesChavezChad’sCommunismChristaphobic)
To: citizen
Adios Georgia! Watch your taxes climb. One by one, the States are invaded, culturally polluted and soon Aztlan will be a fact while the pols sit around and do nothing to stop the invasion. Homeland Security can now be called Homeland Insecurity.
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:32:04 AM PDT
by
Paulus Invictus
(Freerepublic.com is eTruth!)
To: Major_Risktaker
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:35:49 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Please direct all Quality Control complaints to Tijeras_Slim)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:36:43 AM PDT
by
Major_Risktaker
(CNNCBSCastroCarterClintonsCrimesChavezChad’sCommunismChristaphobic)
To: Paulus Invictus
Aztlanta? Too close for comfort!
g
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posted on
09/18/2003 10:41:06 AM PDT
by
Geezerette
(... but young at heart!-)
To: citizen
Buenas dias, y'all.
To: ruppertdog
Well, obviously you haven't been to the growing barrios in Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties of California.
I've never gotten an answer to these questions?: How many can the US absorb before losing/lowering its generally high standard of living? 100,000 a year? 1,000,000 a year? 10,000,000 a year? 100,000,000 a year? Do we even have the moral right to want to maintain that standard of living with so many poor in the World. And if we do, where's the cutoff before the ship sinks? Think Europe.
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posted on
09/18/2003 12:14:45 PM PDT
by
A Navy Vet
(government is the problem, not the solution!)
To: citizen
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posted on
09/18/2003 12:45:25 PM PDT
by
Consort
To: A Navy Vet
The already generous legal immigration ceiling is more than enough new residents per year.
Of course we have the right to maintain our higher standard of living, even an obligation to do so. If the US economy (standard of living) is halved, the world economy tanks for a long while -- everybody loses.
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posted on
09/18/2003 1:14:38 PM PDT
by
citizen
(Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
To: citizen
"In California, there were no good jobs," she said in Spanish on Wednesday afternoon. "There are more jobs here." Gee, can't imagine why there are no more good jobs here in Kalifornia. Just because the state legislature chased away virtually every manufacturer from the state, made the taxpayer pay for education and health care for illegals, destroyed workers' compensation, and gave all the illegals drivers licenses and left us all 40 billion in the red-
I can't imagine why.......
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posted on
09/18/2003 2:45:56 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: johniegrad
Either that or peach burritos. Never say Georgians arent ethnically diverse.
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