Thread: Forsyth's new face

Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Forsyth's new face
Cultural character of county is in flux


By Wesley Young
JOURNAL REPORTER
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Isidro Zavala, sits with his daughter Dalila. As is Mexican custom, he and his wife, Lilia Vieyra (below), live with her parents.
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Young Dalila Zavala will speak Spanish at home, but she will start learning English when it’s time to get her ready for school.
She will also celebrate the traditions of her Mexican culture while she grows up in an area that historically has rarely encountered it.
Dalila is only 1 year old, but she is part of a significant trend that seems certain to reshape the cultural face of Forsyth County in years to come.
Forsyth will likely become a county with minorities in the majority, and one that has as many Hispanics as blacks. Barring changes in migration or fertility trends, non-Hispanic whites will make up less of the population. It’s all in the numbers that show the racial and ethnic makeup of the population in the youngest age groups - Dalila’s future classmates.
New Census Bureau estimates show that nearly one-fourth of Forsyth County children under age 5 are Hispanic. Hispanics made up more than 10 percent of the county’s total population, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates as of July 1, 2006.
From 2000 to 2006, Forsyth County added almost 14,000 Hispanic residents, an increase of 71 percent. The number of Hispanic children under the age of 5 grew 113 percent, and they were the age group that contributed the most to Hispanic growth.
“I don’t think this country will be losing its identity because it is a mixture of so many things,â€

Again with the "non-hispanic whites" . I am tired of all the word-twisting and name-changing.
The article was interesting though,I had no idea that after the baby-boomers retired that America just didn't have the population to support them and fill those jobs,I'm so glad this article pointed out how lucky we are that the illegals are here to fill that void.I just had no idea there were that many illegals who are doctors,lawyers and CEOs.