Half Of Tennessees Hispanics Are Foreign-Born

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Posted on: February 16th, 2007
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“A Census Bureau report provided new details Friday morning about Tennessees Hispanic population. The government report said that more than half of the Volunteer States Hispanics were born in a country other than the United States. The number of foreign-born Hispanics in Tennessee sky-rocketed in the first half of this decade, from 59,000 in 2000, to nearly 90,000 just four years later.”

Source: http://wkrn.com
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