%0 Journal Article
%T Southern (Dis)Comfort?: Latino Population Growth, Economic Integration and Spatial Assimilation in North Carolina Micropolitan Areas
%A Ana-Mar¨Şa Gonz¨˘lez Wahl
%J Sociation Today
%D 2007
%I North Carolina Sociological Association
%X This paper examines more closely the growth and assimilation of the Latino population in non-metropolitan areas across North Carolina. More specifically, the analysis focuses on micropolitan areas. Based on the last decennial census, micropolitan areas were newly defined by the Census Bureau to reflect the growing importance of "urban clusters" located in non-metropolitan counties.
%K migration
%K micropolitan
%K urbanization
%K hispanic immigration
%U http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v52/ana.htm