What’s New About the New South? Race, Immigration, and Intergroup Relations in a Southern City.

Even before the collection of the 2000 Census, it was clear that a demographic change was underway in the United States in general. Most of the demographic changes were attributed to increasing Latino immigration into the United States, and much of that change is occurring in the South. What effect is this demographic shift going to have on the structure of inter-group relations in the South, rooted in slavery and solidified during Jim Crow, which has historically been entirely black and white? This but one of the questions that need to be addressed. This paper is based on preliminary results from a 2003 survey of Durham, North Carolina residents, which are part of a larger project aimed at identifying the evolving nature of inter-group relations among blacks, whites and Latinos. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]