Las investigaciones sobre el crecimiento y cambio económico en el Sur se han centrado tradicionalmente en la disparidad entre los barrios ricos y las zonas rurales empobrecidas. El enfocarse en la dualidad económica del Sur contrasta con el hecho de que la mayoría de los lugares son de clase media con niveles de vida que se aproximan a los del país en general. Esta investigación utiliza una técnica de agrupación de medias-k, e incorpora datos recientes para mostrar que una jerarquía de dos niveles en condados de clase media ha surgido junto con la tradicional dicotomía ricos / pobres, rural / suburbano.
Between 1990 and 2006, Kentucky's Latino population grew by 300 percent. Using semi-structured interviews, this paper offers a qualitative account that incorporates immigrants' stories into explanations of how Latino males arrived in rural Central Kentucky and the adjustments they faced upon arriving. Rather than moving from traditional settlement states or large metro areas, study participants move first to "new gateway" states of the Southeast, especially Georgia and North Carolina, before coming to Kentucky. Upon arriving in Kentucky, they initially find accepting communities with low competition for employment and good pay, but simultaneously experience social isolation and strenuous work days. These Latino men must negotiate the paradoxes of immigration in the contemporary United States as they adjust to their new lives in this non-traditional destination.
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