Once again the so-called “extremists” were right. Trend will reshape the social and cultural fabric of rural America for decades, according to new research. **
Though it’s happening everywhere immigrants are settling, the impact is more striking in smaller, rural communities that have not grown or have been shrinking because young people have been leaving and those who stay are older and dying.
“Substantial natural increase among new Hispanic immigrants has dampened or even offset recent … population declines in rural communities,” says Kenneth Johnson, co-author of research published in a demographic journal this month. “Hispanic population growth has taken on a demographic momentum of its own.
Grady County, Ga., rich with fields that grow peanuts, soybeans and corn on the Florida state line, grew about 4% to 24,719 from 2000 to 2006. The number of Hispanics almost doubled to 2,382, according to Census estimates.
“It’s put a strain on our emergency services,” says Rusty Moye, county administrator, who says the number of Hispanics is underestimated. “They’re actually using our emergency rooms as their health clinics because when they get sick, they have no doctor. They’re all indigents.”
Despite newcomers’ boost to dwindling populations, communities are not always convinced that supporting them is worth the cost.
“It can create real challenges in the long term,” says Steve Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors limiting immigration.
**In 1948 the United Nations defined genocide — in part — as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, … deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.”
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