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And you dont need to be rude, you just have a problem with me not liking a place you believe to be heaven, which for you maybe, but not for everyone, so dont tell me I dont know much.
I never said NC/SC was heaven. Read my posts. I came out there and more likely than not will not move there. I actually agree on "some" of your points about NC/SC. I did say some. I think its more how you go about things. But, I will stay on topic
I never said NC/SC was heaven. Read my posts. I came out there and more likely than not will not move there. I actually agree on "some" of your points about NC/SC. I did say some. I think its more how you go about things. But, I will stay on topic
Ps. You don't.
I am sorry that you feel the need to be so nasty and I am done.
I dont believe beating around the bush, so I am sorry if you dont like the way I go about things.
No fuzzy math here! They said (quoted below) 300k Hispanics (NOT ILLEGALS). Out of that number they ESTIMATE 65%. Math......195k out of how many people live in NC? Millions? So, thats only 10%? Not bad! So when you walk around after seeing 100 people, you may see 10. Not bad. Out of those 10 how many really bother you?
During the 1990s, North Carolina had the fastest growing Hispanic population of any state in the nation, growing from 76,726 in 1990 to 378,963 in 2000. That’s an increase of 393 percent.
Illegal immigration, primarily from Mexico, is responsible for the majority of that growth. The Washington D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that 300,000 people — roughly 65 percent of North Carolina’s Latino population — are illegal immigrants, based on the Census Bureau’s latest population estimates. No major Hispanic advocacy group has disputed Pew’s calculations
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you out in the woods? they tend to migrate more where there is a larger population of people like in Raleigh where we were. You are by Lake Norman right?
Yeah we are kind of out in the woods, yep not to far from Lake Norman.
No fuzzy math here! They said (quoted below) 300k Hispanics (NOT ILLEGALS). Out of that number they ESTIMATE 65%. Math......195k out of how many people live in NC? Millions? So, thats only 10%? Not bad! So when you walk around after seeing 100 people, you may see 10. Not bad. Out of those 10 how many really bother you?
During the 1990s, North Carolina had the fastest growing Hispanic population of any state in the nation, growing from 76,726 in 1990 to 378,963 in 2000. That’s an increase of 393 percent.
Illegal immigration, primarily from Mexico, is responsible for the majority of that growth. The Washington D.C.-based Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that 300,000 people — roughly 65 percent of North Carolina’s Latino population — are illegal immigrants, based on the Census Bureau’s latest population estimates. No major Hispanic advocacy group has disputed Pew’s calculations
Actual in plain english it says 300,000 which is 65%of the hispanic population are illegal, thats alot of illegals no matter how you slice it
"300,000 people — roughly 65 percent of North Carolina’s Latino population — are illegal immigrants"
I haven't lived there. Came out in Sept to visit and check things out. Curious, how do they know it is 500k. They don't vote. Can you supply a link?
TornadoAlley, I can't supply a link at this moment....but it is all over the news here in NC. In fact, I would say it is THE subject on the radio, usually mentioned on WRAL-TV (Raleigh), and a hot subject in the General Assembly. It is the opinion of many that the state election will be heavily influenced by the "leaning" of local politicians on the illegal alien situation.
I did hear on WPTF radio (also out of Raleigh) just this afternoon that NC had become THE HOT SPOT (OK, I really didn't hear it in capital letters!) in the number of illegals, due largely to building and agriculture.
In-state tuition is another sore subject to many.....
I don't know anything about gregsbabe1 and her (I assume gregs babe is female!) validity. I do know that the figures quoted are figures I have heard also. My daughter teaches in a local elementary school and the problems there have increased so much in the past few years. It has put a strain on the school system, not just in numbers, but in dealing with the language barrier.
Neither. I have been there. State your facts. I have. Re-read. 3% of the population isn't bad. Really. Take a look at TX, AZ, and even CA. That's bad. NC/SC isn't bad at all.
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