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Population Change and Rural SocietyRural Hispanic Population Growth

Population Change and Rural Society: Rural Hispanic Population Growth CHAPTER 7 Public Policy Impacts in Nonmetro Counties WILLIAM A. KANDEL AND EMILIO A. PARRADO INTRODUCTION Data from Census 2000 reveal dramatic increases in the Hispanic popu- lation in new destinations throughout all areas of the country. Since the end of the Second World War, the majority of Hispanics have resided in a handful of large cities. Recent attention to new Hispanic destinations has examined the extraordi- nary Hispanic population growth in Birmingham, Alabama; Louisville, Kentucky; and other unexpected harbingers of urban multiculturalism (Suro & Singer, 2002). However, Hispanics are also becoming a widely felt presence throughout many rural regions of the nation. In fact, over the past decade, their rates of increase in nonmetro counties exceeded that in metro counties as well as the rates of all other racial and ethnic groups in both county types (Cromartie & Kandel, 2002). This unusual growth has, for the first time in U.S. history, shifted half of all non- metropolitan Hispanics outside the nonmetropolitan portion of the Southwest, comprised of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. These patterns have attracted scholarly attention because of the new ge- ography of recent migration flows and because of public policy issues raised by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Population Change and Rural SocietyRural Hispanic Population Growth

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 16)
Editors: Kandel, William A.; Brown, David L.
Kandel, William A.; Parrado, Emilio A.
Population Change and Rural Society — Jan 1, 2006
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2006
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978-1-4020-3911-9
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155 –175
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10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_7
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CHAPTER 7 Public Policy Impacts in Nonmetro Counties WILLIAM A. KANDEL AND EMILIO A. PARRADO INTRODUCTION Data from Census 2000 reveal dramatic increases in the Hispanic popu- lation in new destinations throughout all areas of the country. Since the end of the Second World War, the majority of Hispanics have resided in a handful of large cities. Recent attention to new Hispanic destinations has examined the extraordi- nary Hispanic population growth in Birmingham, Alabama; Louisville, Kentucky; and other unexpected harbingers of urban multiculturalism (Suro & Singer, 2002). However, Hispanics are also becoming a widely felt presence throughout many rural regions of the nation. In fact, over the past decade, their rates of increase in nonmetro counties exceeded that in metro counties as well as the rates of all other racial and ethnic groups in both county types (Cromartie & Kandel, 2002). This unusual growth has, for the first time in U.S. history, shifted half of all non- metropolitan Hispanics outside the nonmetropolitan portion of the Southwest, comprised of Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. These patterns have attracted scholarly attention because of the new ge- ography of recent migration flows and because of public policy issues raised by

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: Hispanic Population; Policy Demand; Rental Unit; Population Pyramid; Area Resource File

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