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Cairycat

(1,760 posts) Tue May 30, 2017, 07:19 AM May 2017

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Good NYT article about the changing face of Iowa

and how a community can adjust.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/business/economy/storm-lake-iowa-immigrant-workers.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

about Storm Lake.

I know my hometown of Marshalltown would be a ghost town if not for immigrants. The Waterloo-Cedar Falls area has its growing pains, but the resentment is a little more tamped-down, I think.

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Good NYT article about the changing face of Iowa (Original Post) Cairycat May 2017 OP

hard to blame immigrants for an industry that recruited them from out of state and a company that lunasun May 2017 #1

If the economy there turns bad the white population will AJT May 2017 #2

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

1. hard to blame immigrants for an industry that recruited them from out of state and a company that

Reply to Cairycat (Original post)

Tue May 30, 2017, 07:37 AM

May 2017

busted the union out making sure union supporters were not hired in my mind

AJT

(5,240 posts)

2. If the economy there turns bad the white population will

Reply to lunasun (Reply #1)

Tue May 30, 2017, 08:55 AM

May 2017

turn on the brown immigrants in a heart beat.

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