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1. Don't know about the Valley, peanut/soy country, but the Eastern Shore has always had a lot of migrant labor

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sun Nov 24, 2024, 08:26 AM

Nov 24

The chicken houses in the Valley at one point (90’s) had a significant amount of refugees. Doctors, lawyers, architects, etc who faced language barriers to getting certified here basically gave up their careers just to get their families here. Or at least out of where they were. I heard an NPR report back then that Harrisonburg schools had well over 100 languages or dialects being spoken in them.

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