Atlanta: A Mini-Los Angeles

A "new pluralism" is sweeping the Old South and Atlanta is leading the way. Some call it a "mini-Los Angeles in the making."

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December 9, 2002, 12:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Until the early 1990s, the three major epochs in Southern history had to do with race: the Civil War, Reconstruction and the civil rights movement. Now comes the fourth. During the past 15 years, an unprecedented wave of immigration swept over the South, transforming the meaning of race in the very place it was defined...immigrants from Mexico, India, South Korea, Vietnam and other countries shocked a fundamentally white and black society...Now their children are coming of age, with different expectations of what a life can be."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Old South Goes With the Wind

Sunday, December 8, 2002 in The Washington Post

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