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By “they,” I especially mean rank-and-file community and labor activists, who reflected and organized mass support for the “big box” law in the city’s large number of disproportionately poor black and Latino wards.

ZNet |Activism | Score One For Justice in Chicago

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Some will have moved from the melting-pot areas to growing states such as Nevada and Arizona. But other places — such as the Midwest — will remain largely white, he says. There, baby boomers will stay settled while younger residents move away. This will lift the age of the population and shift the political landscape.

Demographer’s Art of Prediction Often Imitates Life

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there are signs that domestic beers’ traditional hold over the heartland is loosening in favor of imported beers – and that has American brewers worried.

Imported beers win converts in Heartland

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The transition not only into American livelihood, but also into the culture of Latino America, is often jarring for Latino immigrants. It is especially so in communities where the Latino population as a whole is still a significant minority

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Those were among the findings of a study released Thursday by the nonpartisan Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, a two-year-old Indianapolis think tank, and the Mexican Consulate. The report’s authors said it was the first to look at the links between Mexico and Indiana.

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Why do critics try and pronounce “televnovela” with a Hispanic accent?You are white, you are from the Midwest.Be okay with that.I am both of the above and I say “telenovela” the way I say everything else…like a character from the movie “Fargo.”

Kimmel sweats, Salma shines, Vanessa flexes – BC Beat – Blog on Broadcasting & Cable – 1380000138

We must secure our borders. We cannot afford a guest worker program if we get cheap labor but have to pick up the tab to educate their children.

Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com

He wouldn’t answer. I asked, “If someone broke into your country against the laws of your land and you called the Border Patrol to have them arrested, would you be a racist for your actions?”

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In the Northeast and Midwest, deindustrialized zones of misery will contain the white, African American, and Latino poor, bound together by “social resentment” and a “lumpen-proletarian hip-hop culture,” and isolated from the gated communities of the prosperous. In the Southeast, the “Old Confederacy” race divisions will continue—“race over” does not in fact apply there—but somehow this will make no difference in the national picture.

Monthly Review July-August 2006 David Roediger ¦ The Retreat from Race and Class

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As an immigration debate with racial overtones heats up nationwide, Montrose County is grappling with news from the Southern Poverty Law Center that Olathe is apparently home to a chapter of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Local News :: Montrose Daily Press ::

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Cuando era niño tenia un amigo que le decían Juan Vázquez. No porque fuera su nombre, sino porque era muy alto y le gustaba jugar mucho baloncesto. Vázquez-Basket, get it? I guess you had to be there!

Throughout Latin America, a place of wildly diverse climate and geography layouts, the basketball landscape is as varied as the environmental topography.

NBADraft.net | The Globalization of Basketball: Latin America (Part 1)

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Si todavía son fanáticos de Ozzie Guillen y las Medias Blancas, aquí les ofrezco una franela que apoya a los dos, porque creo que van a tener que buscar a Superman para que los salve este año! [Compre aquí]

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen ticked off a list of possible team MVPs as the season reaches its midpoint.

Tennessee officials are taking the rare step of trying to remove a small-town mayor accused of frequently using racial slurs, including the n-word, and targeting Hispanic drivers for tickets because they are "mostly illegal anyway."

Tennessee Seeks to Remove Accused Mayor

 Pero, todavía tiene gente del pueblo que lo defiende