Hispanic Infiltration Brings Cultural Diversity to Rogers. Arkansas

“Northwest Arkansas’ cultural divide was wider in 1994 when Al “Papa Rap” Lopez arrived here for the second time. He had a brief visit 14 years earlier, long before the Hispanic rush to the area for poultry work that began in the early 1990s. Things were different when he came back.

U.S. Census Bureau records show that Rogers went from 438 Hispanics in the 1990 Census to 7,490 Hispanics in the 2000 Census — a 1,610 percent increase….”

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