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When Viivi Shirley moved to this small railroad town in 1963, the faces of almost all of its residents were, as she put it, “lily-white.”

That changed in the late 1980s and early 1990s when the meat processing plant on the town’s west side underwent a series of ownership changes. The new owners slashed wages and hired a labor force recruited from Texas and California.

The new workers quickly flooded Perry, looking and sounding nothing like the European immigrants who originally settled this town about 40 miles northwest of Des Moines. Their skin was brown, Spanish rolled off their tongues and they hailed originally from Mexico and Central America.”*

*From: http://www.chicagotribune.com
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