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16993
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Over the past decade the Hispanic population has been fastest growing race/ethnic group in the United States. North Carolina is one state that has experienced a Hispanic population boom. However, this growth is not evenly distributed throughout the state. This article questions the driving forces that determine the location and growth mechanisms of Hispanic population clusters in the state.
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16994
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The Appalachian mountains of North Carolina have a long history of producing destructive debris flows. Steep slopes, a thin soil mantle, and extreme precipitation events all exacerbate the probability of slope instability in the region. For this article, modern accounts of debris flows have been reviewed to construct a history and estimate the frequency of debris flows in the French Broad watershed.
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19394
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Charlotte has been one of the state's fastest growing cities in the past fifteen years. Since 1990, city officials and private corporations have turned the city's economic foundation from low-wage manufacturing jobs to a major banking center. The author reviews the city's successful economic growth and how the model could be applied to other cities.
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19395
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The author proposes a curriculum to teach eighth grade social studies students to the states Native American populations. To inform students about this topic, the lesson plans are structured around cultural geography lessons as an introduction to Native American history. There are three objectives for this course: identify Carolina Native American populations, describe Native American influence on colonial life, and analyze demographics and their impact on the state's society and economy.
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16960
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In looking at the political geography of North Carolina, Brown and Debbage examine the relationship between household income and North Carolinians registered as Republicans.
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16961
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Western North Carolina's snowfall can be highly variable. Characteristics such as elevation and exposure may dramatically alter the variability within sub-regions of this area of the state.
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16964
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The 2004 hurricane season was particularly devastating for the Atlantic United States, and North Carolina was no exception. This article discusses the impacts of seven tropical storm systems on North Carolina, looking particularly at precipitation.
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19393
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Cultural geography studies how humans live within their geographical locations. Typically this field incorporates ideas of cultural landscape, material culture, and architecture. The author proposes introducing students to this field by incorporating into curriculum a course in understanding the state's cultural geography.
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16950
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The return of beavers to streams in Guilford County has encountered widely different responses in rural and urban landscape context. Some view the beaver as a positive agent of stream restoration, while others seem them as a public nuisance.
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16951
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Carolina bays and pocosins are two distinct physiographic features found on the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States. Confusion frequently still exists pertaining to the definitions of both as they are often incorrectly assumed to be synonymous. This article defines each term and illustrates how bays and pocosins differ.
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16952
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Examinations of the spatial patterns of disability rates by North Carolina county reveals regional patterns with eastern and mountain counties having higher levels of disabilities. Income and ethnic measures show the most frequent statistically significant associations with disability rates.
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16954
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Antiques tourism is a form of heritage tourism, wherein people travel in pursuit of antiques, or stop to shop for antiques during a trip for another purpose. It is an increasingly popular development strategy for cities and towns across North Carolina.
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16955
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Over the past twenty years, changing processes of globalization and economic integration have sparked an increase in Latino transnational migration to the United States. In particular, this accelerated immigration and settlement of Latino families has profoundly reshaped the demographic, economic, cultural, and social landscape of North Carolina.
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16936
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Beacham provides background on tobacco dependency in North Carolina, stressing the importance of defining dependence in a broad way as they pursue policy options and community development projects.
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16937
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Tobacco growers, and rural communities in which tobacco production accounts for a substantial portion of farm income, face significant challenges at the start of the twenty-first century from economic restructuring within the tobacco sector. Some of the major issues facing the Burley Belt are marketing, diversification, and a shift from traditional auctioning.
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