The 'Browning' Of North Carolina

North Carolina is becoming one of the fastest growing immigrant hubs in the country.

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July 26, 2001, 7:00 AM PDT

"Drawn by the region's buoyant economy, new immigrants, largely from Central America and Mexico, have poured into the region, drastically changing its long-established racial character and adding to its basic economic vitality." Since the mid-1990s, immigration to North Carolina has risen by 73%, the largest such increase in the nation. Three of the top four regions in the country with the strongest increase in Latino immigration are in the state." Will immigration also accelerate the integration of the traditionally insular South into the wider global economy?

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