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Census: Hispanics boosting Indiana's small towns

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Census data show that Hispanics are fueling population growths in many of Indiana's small towns at a time when those communities' white populations are shrinking.

Without the increase in minorities, particularly Hispanics, census data show that the combined population in Indiana towns with 5,000 or fewer residents would have dropped by nearly 4,000 during the last decade.

The Journal Gazette reports that 60 percent of the population growth in all Indiana cities and towns between 1990 and 2010 came from minorities.

And the smallest towns were no different. Of the more than 450 towns with 5,000 or fewer people, 62 recorded no minorities in 1990. By 2010, that number had dropped to 8. And all but three of those towns had lost population.

Information from: The Journal Gazette

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