{"id":23734,"date":"2011-11-14T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/unghosting-towns.html"},"modified":"2011-11-14T18:31:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:31:07","slug":"unghosting-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/unghosting-towns.html","title":{"rendered":"Unghosting Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating article about how Hispanics families are reversing the demographic declines in some Great Plains towns. Cool. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2011%2F11%2F14%2Fus%2F14hispanic5_cnd%2F14hispanic5_cnd-articleLarge.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/14\/us\/as-small-towns-wither-on-plains-hispanics-come-to-the-rescue.html?_r=1&#038;hp'>As Small Towns Wither on Plains, Hispanics Come to the Rescue<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHispanics are offsetting the decline in the white population in many smallest heartland communities.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating article about how Hispanics families are reversing the demographic declines in some Great Plains towns. Cool. #ddtb Embedded Link As Small Towns Wither on Plains, Hispanics Come to the Rescue Hispanics are offsetting the decline in the white population in many smallest heartland communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25272,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/none-dare-call-it-terror.html","url_meta":{"origin":23734,"position":0},"title":"None dare call it Terror?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Jan-12 5:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm amazed that even TPM didn't use the \"T\" word here -- serial bombers who were \"sending a message\" about all those Hispanics and Blacks and Jews? 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