To Be An Average American

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

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December 11, 2002, 11:00 AM PST

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


"For decades, the white-flight suburb fenced itself off from the urbanism of Atlanta 15 miles to the southwest, banning mass transit from crossing its borders. Then in the 1990s, 95,000 immigrants arrived, and the white wonderland of Gwinnett County became the rim of the new world. Latinos are 11 percent of the half-million people living here, but it's the 7 percent Asian population that is most audacious: in entrepreneurship, in school performance and in the leap toward the middle class. What was once white suburbia is now a Bladerunneresque topography of strip malls..."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Tuesday, December 10, 2002 in The Washington Post

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