hispanic population in arkansas Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/hispanic-population-in-arkansas Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 Arkansas Latinos and Poultry http://toursmaps.com/arkansas-latinos-poultry.html http://toursmaps.com/arkansas-latinos-poultry.html#respond Sat, 30 Apr 2016 21:14:26 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203625 In the case of Arkansas, greater numbers of Latinos were initially drawn to the state in the mid-1980s largely because of employment opportunities in the poultry industry. The state produces more chicken than any other, and poultry is Arkansas’s largest industry. Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer in the world, is headquartered in the state, and most of the industry’s major players have operations in Arkansas. As a result, the surge in Latino population during the 1990s was geographically concentrated in towns or regions with significant poultry-processing facilities. Although the speed and timing of Latino entry into poultry plants varied

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