Mainstream Memphis often misses connection with city’s Spanish-speaking subculture

“The concert was just one event within a Spanish-speaking universe that most Memphians rarely see. A city long divided by race now has another barrier that’s perhaps even more powerful: language.

Memphis is home to immigrants from countries ranging from Sudan to Vietnam, but Mexicans and other Latin Americans are by far the biggest group. Estimates of the metro area’s Hispanic population range from 34,000 to 100,000, and about one in 10 babies born in Shelby County last year was Hispanic.”

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