The Journey To Middle Class

The second in a series of four articles that tell the stories of immigrants who are changing the face of the Old South.

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December 9, 2002, 1:00 PM PST

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

"Nallely arrived in Atlanta in 1991. The city had its Deep South delicacies and its waxy magnolias, but if you were a new arrival from Mexico, the idea of Dixie meant nothing. This was the place for jobs, in one blinding low-wage landscape: Olive Garden, Nail Xpress, Vacuum World, Superhair, Two Minute Car Wash, Big K, Mattress Plus, jobs that went on forever...Nallely's parents came to Georgia with 326,000 other Latinos, more than half from Mexico. California and Texas were already settled out. The South was an open frontier."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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