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Dec 3 2022
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In this county near the Tennessee-Georgia border, the growth in the Hispanic or Latino population has outpaced the national average. In the past decade, the number of residents who identified as Hispanic or Latino rose nearly 81% or more than 12,000 people, compared to 23% nationwide, according to US Census data.
Latino students are rapidly increasing in this Tennessee county and it’s fueling a racist rhetoric
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