Hispanics remaking the Deep South

Hispanics are going to make the political map look much different in the Southern states. - - Donna Poisl

BY HALIMAH ABDULLAH, MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON -- Huge surges among Hispanic populations in the Deep South could mean a political sea change over the next two decades, as immigrants become naturalized and they and their American-born children register to vote.

The states with some of the largest percentages in Hispanic population growth make up a large swath of the Southeast: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, according to an analysis of the most recent census figures by the Pew Hispanic Center.

In all those Republican-dominated states, the percentage of Hispanics nearly doubled.
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