“…Nashville is an exemplar of the ‘global interior’ - the phenomenon of refugee immigration to cities in the U.S. heartland - in a recent Carnegie Reporter article entitled “New Immigrants in New Places.”
Tennessee’s capitol has been called a “blue city in a red state.” Between 1990 and 1999 the foreign born population grew by over 203% from less than 13,000 to more than 40,000 out of the consolidated Nashville-Davidson population of over 607,000. Foreign born residents in
Nashville now account for one in seven residents…”
When will we ever learn that some folks just aren’t our friends and the reason(s) “they” come here is less than honorable?
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