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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Immigrants in the American heartland

This story shows how diverse this whole country is becoming, including small town Iowa and other rural areas. - - Donna Poisl

By Paul Adams

Look around America's rural heartland in the 21st Century and you see some remarkable things.

A Buddhist temple, with monks dressed in vivid saffron robes, set amid rain-drenched cornfields.

Newly arrived Somali workers, tucking into burritos in a Mexican restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

Ultra-orthodox Jews hurrying through the chilly autumn gloom to Sabbath prayers in a small town set amid rolling hills.
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