State’s hot spots draw Hispanics Ethnic group grows 12 times faster than Arkansas population as whole

“Arkansas’ Hispanic population shot up dramatically in counties with hot economies over the past five years, while counties with little or no economic growth saw a much slower influx of people hailing from south of the border.
Since 2000, the number of Hispanics in Arkansas grew more than 12 times faster than the state’s population as a whole, according to U.S. Census estimates released today. Attracted by jobs in poultry processing, agriculture and construction, the Natural State’s Hispanic population grew by 51 percent to 130,846; the entire population grew 4 percent to 2.78 million.”

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