Posted on 05/02/2016 4:25:57 PM PDT by seacapn
I couldn’t believe it when I went into one Iowa small town and all the store signs were in Spanish. A huge Louis Rich turkey plant was just around the corner.
I bet if it was a smaller company with let say 40-50 jobs they would of been all right with it. the reality is a manufacturing job generates about 3 times more jobs in support areas like teachers for the kids of the familys moving into the area. a grocery store to serve those making money at the plant ad a few fast food restaurants. there is no way that the community would of been the same community with 1100 manufacturing jobs moving into the area.
Those processing plants stink like he’ll anyway.
Yes.
It would have ended up just like Lewiston Maine.
In the 2000 census Lewiston had 383 blacks.
In 2010 after the federal government backed Somali invasion the black population jumped to 3,174 - an increase of almost 90%.
Downtown Lewiston Maine After Obama
***it was the perfect spot for a chicken processing plant that would liven up the 400-person town with 1,100 jobs,***
Nothing wrong with bringing in jobs. Better get ready to speak Somali as they will end up being the workers there.
I saw it happen in the little town on NOEL, MO. Once a small summer resort town it is now a Somali dive with abandoned motels everywhere and a mosque downtown.
Perhaps more importantly, the town is not far from several ethanol plants, whose DDGS by-products are depended upon by chicken producers as cheap, high protein feed.
I’ve changed my views recently. I would now rather pay a little more for “local” flavor than get a “bargain” from megachains.
Local stores/businesses are what really gives my town its character.
Bingo!
Out in those parts of the country, you can't judge a town by its population. There are likely thousands of acres of farm land owned by those measly 400 people.
Judging by the size, it's similar to the town I used to pheasant hunt in N.W. Kansas...........ALL farmers with the exception of the couple of stores in town and a large number of welfare recipients.
You'll never find a more conservative town than Logan KS..............
yes and the feds trying to force it on them to “equalize” the community
They’ve done the same thing in Alabama and a lot of nice areas around the southeast. They’re not so nice or safe anymore.
I’ve seen what they have done to a couple of towns here in IN that have large food processing plants.
Decent medium sized towns that are now over run with people who have no intention of assimilating. Decent Americans move out, property values dive, tax receipts fall, towns now hurting to provide basic services.
And it all happened over just the past 20-25 years.
Pottersville
me too! I have begun to purchase from small vendors - all of my hot tub supplies are from a small business even though they are a few buck more than at a big box store and online.
There's no need for jobs, they're all working farmers...........
Beware when you click on the link to read the article, it will (by default) play a ABC News video talking about the supposedly declining U.S. unemployment rate and that will ultimately lead to The One talking about it with more of his speak.
According to the 2010 Census, the town is already about a quarter Hispanic. So there may already be a bit of an illegal presence that isn’t even being counted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickerson,_Nebraska
“We’re from the government and we’re here to help you”. NOT!!!
One thing this town still needs to worry about is the developer finding space outside of the town’s influence and putting the plant in anyway. I was on the zoning board in a small town in Illinois and the local municipalities had right of refusal for any development within X miles of the town’s border. If the Nebraska laws are similar, the people could find the chicken plant just outside that border, with none of the benefits and all of the disadvantages. Hope it doesn’t happen to those folks.
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