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The findings are based on a 2003 survey, conducted in English and Spanish, of 500 Durham, N.C., residents, including 160 whites, 151 blacks and 167 Latinos. Durham was chosen for the pilot study because North Carolina has the fastest-growing Latino population in the country, and because Durham’s black population includes residents at all socioeconomic levels.
The goal was to understand how Latino immigration a population largely new to the South in the past decade affects group dynamics in the South, which has historically been defined by the relationship between blacks and whites.
Researchers found that 58.9 percent of Latino immigrants most Latinos in Durham are from Mexico feel that few or almost no blacks are hard-working. About one-third, or 32.5 percent, of Latino immigrants reported they feel few or almost no blacks are easy to get along with. More than half of the Latino immigrants, or 56.9 percent, feel that few or almost no blac
Pro-Trump extremists storm the Capitol building in Washington Wednesday.
“It s watching one of those terrible historical moments in real time.”
That’s how political historian Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, described his reaction to Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
But was Zelizer surprised?
“At one level, it’s just horrible to watch our democracy be in this place,” he said as the 6 p.m. curfew approached and pro-Trump extremists began to disperse amid a growing police presence. “At another level, it s hard not to see how this is the culmination of what has been happening in the last four years in fact in the last four decades,” since the rise of what Zelizer has called the new Republican Party.