Lowcountry leads Hispanic boom in South Carolina

“As local leaders worry about the cost of illegal immigrants, South Carolina businesses are seeking out Mexicans as a low-cost, productive alternative to the state’s traditional workforce, a University of South Carolina economist told county officials Tuesday.

Douglas Woodward, research director at USC’s Moore School of Business, and a team of graduate students interviewed 381 Mexican immigrants in 2005 from around the state, including more than 100 from the Beaufort area.”

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