Isolated group with no human relatives?

Kalasa? Hunza? Pakistani Himalayan people? We're Colombian (©PLDroneOperator/X).

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Isolated group in Colombia found with no modern human relatives

There were many kinds of humans.

Deep in Colombia’s highlands, scientists have uncovered a mysterious ancient population unlike any group known today. Around 6,000 years ago, this population lived near the Bogotá Altiplano, a high plateau that served as a critical corridor for early migration between North and South America.

• VIDEO: Making love at Kalash Fertility Festival, mountain people of Pakistan

Are humanoid groups still landing on Earth?

This discovery is remarkable because their genetic makeup does not match any known modern human populations. [Like the Basque in Spain?]

For decades, researchers believed the peopling of South America followed two main genetic lineages, but this newly identified group represents an entirely unknown branch of humanity.

Their DNA reveals a lineage that vanished without leaving any genetic descendants in present-day populations.

This finding challenges long-held assumptions about human migration and diversity in the Americas. It opens a new window into the complex history of human settlement on the continent, inviting us to rethink the story of our ancient ancestors and their paths. Isolated group in Colombia found with no modern human relatives (TimelessTalesHQ.com)

• Unveiling ancient roots: DNA reveals the intriguing origins of the Philistines
• 9 prehistoric sites in the U.S.A. that reveal ancient Native Indigenous life
• Is the Tasmanian tiger extinct? The truth about the thylacine's possible survival

Are there other buried secrets right in the USA?

Natives who settled the Americas (PBS)

The ancient tribes that settled the Americas | First Peoples | Full Episode 1 | PBS

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Easter Island pop never collapsed: study

The collapse of the population of Easter Island never happened, say scientists

How much proof of ET intervention is needed?

(WQ) Star People (space visitors) came down to help produce the culture we see on so-called "Easter Island" or Rapa Nui as it is actually named.

When Europeans arrived, they assumed the population had to bigger before and must have dwindled down to its size of a few thousand. A new study published in a peer-reviewed journal shows that that is a Western myth, a foolish assumption that never happened.

The Rapa Nui may have ruined their environment and chopped down all their trees. But that did not cause a collapse of its population. It's intensive gardening and farming techniques, which produce low yields in the best of seasons, were as they had always been.

So who built the Moai, the giant statues buried up to the chests? They obviously had help and no time or inclination to make such monoliths without prompting and help from somewhere out there off the isolated island.

• The population collapse of Easter Island never happened: scientists have uncovered the truth in a new study (Popular Mechanics)
• Ancient DNA from Easter Island (aka Rapa Nui) shows Polynesians and Native Americans interbred [so somebody must have boated across the Pacific to meet up]

Ecocide hypothesis

In his book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond suggested that cannibalism took place on Easter Island after the construction of the moai (stone head statues that are actually whole bodies) contributed to environmental degradation when extreme deforestation (ecocide) destabilized an already precarious ecosystem [33].

The archeological record shows that at the time of the initial settlement the island was home to many species of trees, including at least three species which grew up to 49 feet (15 meters) or more: Paschalococos (possibly the largest palm trees in the world at the time), Alphitonia zizyphoides, and Elaeocarpus rarotongensis.

At least six species of land birds were known to live on the island. A major factor that contributed to the extinction of multiple plant species was the introduction of the Polynesian rat.

Studies by paleobotanists have shown rats can dramatically affect the reproduction of vegetation in an ecosystem. In the case of Rapa Nui, recovered plant seed shells showed markings of being gnawed on by rats [3]. This version of the history speculates a high former population to the island that had already declined before Europeans arrived.

Barbara A. West wrote, "Sometime before the arrival of Europeans on Easter Island, the Rapanui experienced a tremendous upheaval in their social system brought about by a change in their island's ecology... By the time of European arrival in 1722, the island's population had dropped to 2,000–3,000 from a high of approximately 15,000 just a century earlier" [34].

By that time, 21 species of trees and all species of land birds became extinct through some combination of over-harvesting, over-hunting, rat predation, and climate change. The island was largely deforested, and it did not have any trees taller than 9.8 ft. (3 m).

Loss of large trees meant that residents were no longer able to build seaworthy vessels, significantly diminishing their fishing abilities. According to this version of the history, the trees were used as rollers to move the moai statues to their place of erection from the quarry at Rano Raraku [35].

Deforestation also caused erosion which caused a sharp decline in agricultural production [3]. This was exacerbated by the loss of land birds and the collapse in seabird populations as a source of food.

By the 18th century, islanders were largely sustained by farming, with domestic chickens as the primary source of protein [36].

Birdmen replace warriors

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As the island became overpopulated and resources diminished, warriors known as matatoa gained more power and the Ancestor Cult ended, making way for the Bird Man Cult.

Beverly Haun wrote, "The concept of mana (power) invested in hereditary leaders was recast into the person of the birdman, apparently beginning circa 1540, and coinciding with the final vestiges of the moai period" [37].

This cult maintained that, although the ancestors still provided for their descendants, the medium through which the living could contact the dead was no longer statues, but human beings chosen through a competition.

The god responsible for creating humans, Makemake, played an important role in this process. Katherine Routledge, who systematically collected the island's traditions in her 1919 expedition [38], showed that the competitions for Bird Man (Rapa Nui tangata manu) started around 1760, after the arrival of the first Europeans, and ended in 1878, with the construction of the first church by Roman Catholic missionaries who formally arrived in 1864.

Petroglyphs representing Bird Men on Easter Island are the same as some in Hawaii, indicating that this concept was probably brought by the original settlers; only the competition itself was unique to Easter Island.

According to Diamond and Heyerdahl's version of the island's history, the huri mo'ai – "statue-toppling" – continued into the 1830s as a part of fierce internal wars.

By 1838, the only standing moai were on the slopes of Rano Raraku, in Hoa Hakananai'a in Orongo, and Ariki Paro in Ahu Te Pito Kura.

Criticism of the ecocide hypothesis

Diamond and West's version of the history is highly controversial. A study headed by Douglas Owsley published in 1994 asserted that there is little archeological evidence of pre-European societal collapse.

Bone pathology and osteometric data from islanders of that period clearly suggest few fatalities can be attributed directly to violence [39].

Research by Binghamton University anthropologists Robert DiNapoli and Carl Lipo in 2021 suggests that the island experienced steady population growth from its initial settlement until European contact in 1722.

The island never had more than a few thousand people prior to European contact, and their numbers were increasing rather than dwindling [40][41].

Several works that address or counter Diamond's claims in Collapse have been published.

In Ecological Catastrophe and Collapse -The Myth of "Ecocide" on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Hunt and Lipo set out a claim-by-claim rebuttal to Diamond's claims.

This includes, among other things:

• that deforestation began immediately, but the population grew while the forest declined as the land was converted to more productive farmland;
• that the island's population grew continuously up to the arrival of Europeans, with the only clear decline starting in the period of 1750–1800;
• that studies from other islands show clearly that Polynesian settlement without Polynesian rats is only associated with minimal forest loss while the arrival of rats without human settlement is devastating to forest populations;
• only species favored by the rats for consumption were lost, not for example the native Sophora toromiro;
• that the island's drier, less predictable climate made it inherently more vulnerable to deforestation than other Polynesian islands; and that the population declines on Rapa Nui can be well attributed to the very mechanism described by Diamond in another of his books, Guns, Germs and Steel -- the devastating impact of introduced diseases, raids, slavery, and exploitation on indigenous populations [42].

In another work, Hunt and Lipo discuss more evidence against the ecocide hypothesis. In addition to focusing on the settlement chronology, they note that the island has an abnormally low amount of evidence of warfare compared to other Polynesian islands, only relatively small-scale intergroup conflict.

There are no fortifications, and the attributed obsidian mata'a "weapons" show rather evidence of having been used in agriculture, and indeed, match up with agricultural tools long recognized among artifacts of other Polynesian peoples [43]. More

• The population collapse of Easter Island never happened: scientists have uncovered the truth in a new study (Popular Mechanics)
• Eds., Wisdom Quarterly tex and Wiki edit

When did California join USA? Today in 1850

Today in 1850, California became a state. When Mexico ceded the land in the Treaty of Hidalgo, no one told them gold had been found and would lead to the world's greatest gold rush to the island (because California is an island or was for a long time as European cartographers documented many times) with many of the 49ers being Irish in search of riches. The state has since become the most powerful economic and cultural force in the country and in much of the world. Much of California still belongs to Mexico and is divided into two states south of the border, Baja (Lower) California and Sur de (South of) California, a peninsular land that certainly looks like a great island and, when sea levels were higher, may well have been. California started as a free state, avoiding slavery but not for the abolitionist principles for which others fought. The Natives were wiped out and nearly erased, the grizzlies were all killed or driven out (only remaining on Catalina Island, a part of Los Angeles County). Is it time to break away from the rest of the country?

Sex: The science of Genghis Khan genes

Everyone was WRONG about Genghis Khan

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35 things about our mysterious moon

Moon emits own light rather than reflecting sun's, proved by Zetetic science (Shutterstock)

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35 Astonishing Facts About the Moon You Didn't Know

If space were this way, why is it all CGI?

(Royals+) The Moon, Earth’s closest celestial neighbor, has fascinated humans for centuries [though there was a time in history when the moon was not yet in place].

As this planet’s only permanent natural [or possibly quite artificial] satellite, it significantly affects Earth’s tides [just the oceans, leaving all the other bodies of water alone], cultural stories, and scientific knowledge of the universe.

Real photograph or pathetic fake CGI image?

Its formation, geological features, influence on Earth’s rotation, and potential for future colonization provide insights into our Solar System and opportunities for human exploration beyond Earth.

This collection of intriguing facts reveals the Moon’s mysteries, emphasizing its importance in science, culture, and exploration, offering a detailed overview of this mysterious satellite illuminating the night sky. More

• Royals+ via MSN.com, June 13, 2024; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jimmy Dore: False claims of Hamas rape

Jimmy Dore, Mike MacRae (The Jimmy Dore Show); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Blacks for Trump? (Snoop Dogg used to hate Trump but likes him now for pardoning his rich friend and releasing him from jail, which is more than the Democrats ever did). How could people of color be for Trump? That's easy. The Democrats and Biden are even worse.

Celebrities who dated lucky normal people

Starsinsider.com; Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

These celebrities have dated regular people

Lesbian Cynthia Nixon

We all probably have a celebrity crush, but the chances of actually ending up with one of them are one in a million [or more like one in 330 million, the approximate population of the country, now that the planet is supporting more than 8 billion]. Well, there's hope. Click through this gallery for a look at just who those lucky few are who have dated the stars. That's right, there are totally ordinary people out there who fell into the Hollywood limelight because of the person they are dating or married to—an A-list celeb! More

• Celebs have crushes, too, like Tom Cruise loves Shakira
• What is computer vision syndrome, and how to cure it?
• History's most shockingly brutal acts of revenge

Best chance: be a groupie

Israeli soldier IDF veteran of Gaza speaks out

Owen Jones, 12/15/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Jews in newsroom reveal the truth of Israeli war crimes on CTV News (jimmydore.com)

This Israeli soldier fought in Gaza. Now he speaks out

(Owen Jones) Dec. 15, 2023: Commander Ariel Bernstein is a former IDF combat soldier who fought in the West Bank and Gaza in 2014. Now he campaigns for peace and against Israel's illegal occupation and Zionist settlements. This is one of the most fascinating interviews Owen Jones has done, according to Jones. Bernstein talks about his experience in Gaza, about dehumanization, mowing the lawn (a regular round of violence inflicted on the helpless, army-less Palestinians), Israel's wartime propaganda -- and where this is all heading.

• BreakingTheSilence.org.il: Zionist-Jewish terrorist IDF soldiers speak out in regret, asking for peace from Israel over occupation, apartheid, racism, elitism, and police state (state-sponsored) terrorism on the civilian Arab population of Palestine (Jerusalem, Gaza, West Bank, and refugee camps outside the country)
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Why 82% of Mexico is empty (video)

RealLifeLore, Feb. 18, 2023; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexican food is best.

(RealLifeLore) A large portion of the country of Mexico, or the United Mexican States as it's really named, is little populated, whereas most of its population of 128 million is squeezed into a tight band at the center. Why? And why has it been like this for so long? In looking into it, we find out a lot about the USA, too.

• Buddhism in Mexico

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People don't like Jews or Kanye (video)

Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; FOX; IE; CBS

Ya regret Pete? Now ya take me back? Ya'see, I'm bigger than Trump! - Take your meds.

Banner saying ‘Kanye is right about the Jews’ hung over the 405 Freeway in LA

(FOX 11 Los Angeles, Oct. 24, 2022) An antisemitic hate group was behind a banner hung over a busy Los Angeles freeway on Saturday saying “Kanye is right about the Jews,” after Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, made a string of antisemitic comments in recent weeks.

• Republicans to impose minority rule for the foreseeable future [by controlling Congress]

Anti-Semitic banners hung on overpass of LA freeway

(Inside Edition, Oct. 24, 2022) Anti-Semitic banners were hung over a freeway in Los Angeles. Some of the banners read, “Honk if you know Kanye is right about the Jews,” referring to comments recently tweeted out by Ye, also known as Kanye West. While the comments were removed from Twitter, the artist had made statements claiming that people were being “controlled by Jews.” [He's gone DefCon 3 on an ethnic group.] Inside Edition Digital’s Mara Montalbano has more.

Kanye West's "White Lives Matter" shirts given out to homeless people in LA's Skid Row

(CBS Los Angeles, Oct. 18, 2022)  A known associate of Kanye West posted a video of a group apparently handing out the artist's infamous "White Lives Matter" shirts to the poorest of the poor living on Skid Row. Laurie Perez reports.

Hallelujah, Drake's God's Plan is da shiznit!

People don't like Jews. People dislike Jews. That may sound controversial, but it's often denied. "It's all a misunderstanding." Some people, such as American in exile Eric Dubay, don't think it's a misunderstanding. They are disliked.

Do Jews have an outsized influence on US media news and entertainment? You can't ask that! That question's anti-Semetic. Are Blacks Semetic? The Los Angeles City Council exploded over an anti-Black racism scandal that continues to reverberate over the country's second largest city, which seems like the largest by far. Maybe it's its second place public school system, size wise. LA trails NY.

There are not now nor have there ever been even a million Jews in the USA. Jews make up 2% of the population, and if the population is 350,000,000, that would be 700,000 Jews, mostly concentrated in metropolitan areas, particularly NY and LA.

• Neanderthals could get along, so why can't we?
• The Valley (LA's San Fernando Valley) is dying

Whites give swastikas a bad name? One white.

What a shock that Kanye Ye West-Kardashian is not a fan of an entire people, echoing the splash Mel Gibson once made when he was drunk. Maybe Ye is just off his meds, one of the symptoms of which is anti-Semetism? Recently, West tried to shock the world by wearing "White Lives Matter" shirts. Candace Owens and a cadre of Uncle Toms almost certainly agree. (All lives don't matter until Black Lives Matter, but the BLM organization is not doing Black people any favors by malfeasance and financial shennanigans. Should Candace Owens be shut down and canceled for saying so? The world loves a whistleblower for saying what we already think but hates one for going against the grain and surprising us. "Ain't nobody got time for that." For what? For anyone else's version of "truth."

I'll come up with the questions and the data.

So let's stick to the facts. Where do facts come from? From the university and private corporate researchers, which seem overrepresented in one group, per capita. What percentage of any ethnic or religious group go to college or go into a given field? Those are facts, data, no one is inclined to ask.

We are living in a post-Obama America, so racism is over. Trump indicates that America is racist all over again, possibly more so than before. Or it's more explicit. Are there Neo Nazis in the US? Yes. Are there Neo Nazis in Ukraine? Yes. Aha, there can't be because the elected leader of Ukraine is a Jew! It's ridiculous to think the race of a figurehead determines what the person on the street is up to. Racism ended in England yesterday as an Indian Hindu took office as prime minister. Who believes that?

I agree with the majority and science.

There's just as much racism there as there was before. Are things getting better? Yes, one hopes. Will there be a British backlash? You bet. So let's look at what Black Trump (Ye West) has been up to, stirring the unmelting pot that is the US:

• Kanye West's antisemitic rants are the tip of a much longer spear (msn.com)

Wild LA: urban lions, bears, coyotes (video)

Xochitl, CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Emily Guerin, Staff, Kellie Galentine (KPCC)

View of a portion of expansive LA with skyline looking toward Orange County far beyond in smoggy distance from Runyon Canyon, Hollywood (Chris Goldberg/flickr.com via scpr.org)

Tongva: This land the European invaders call "Los Angeles" is really called Tovanger.

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Pocahontas was married off.

When ecologist Justin Brown examines the stomach contents of a dead coyote [a type of canine that lives in the woods rather than the city like the common dog], he never knows what he’s going to find.

 

“I’ve seen barbecue chicken in their stomachs. I’ve seen cat food, guavas, mice, rats, gophers,” he said. “I mean coyotes are omnivores, so they can take advantage of almost anything that’s edible.”

 

Brown has been studying coyotes for a decade, and for the past year he’s focused exclusively on urban coyotes in Los Angeles as the head of the National Park Service’s Urban Coyote Project.

Coyote C145 walks near a construction site in the Silver Lake neighborhood near downtown L.A late in the evening June 3rd. National Park Service Ecologist Justin Brown tracks coyotes living near DTLA. Some of the coyotes are fitted with radio collars (Stuart Palley/KPCC).

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By capturing coyotes, fitting them with radio collars, and releasing them again, he’s been able to track their movements.

And he has made some surprising observations, like that coyotes can live in densely populated neighborhoods and aren't afraid to dart across freeways.

 

But one simple question has evaded him so far: What do they do for food?

 

It’s important to know what animals eat because their diet tells us why they live where they do.

 

Los Angeles is obviously good habitat for coyotes -- they wouldn’t be here otherwise -- and now Brown wants to know why.

 

Knowing what urban coyotes eat may also help avoid conflicts with humans. More + AUDIO (5:18)

• Climate change alarmism: California just had its hottest summer ever!

Santa Monica Mountains' black bear may be the first seen in over a century
KPCC FM Staff (scpr.org, Aug. 4 2016) edited by Wisdom Quarterly

Keep California wild!

Camera traps picked up the presence of black bear in Malibu Creek State Park on July 26, 2016, the first in a century.

There's no population of bears in Los Angeles' Santa Monica Mountains (by far the largest urban nature reserve in the country) and it's rare for a bear to travel into these mountains.

Cameras caught a black bear in Malibu Creek State Park in the Santa Monica Mountains recently.

Yeah, keep it wild, and keep dogs leashed.

It's a very unusual sighting, as the Santa Monicas haven't had a local bear population since the 1800s when grizzlies lived in the area.

 

The National Park Service's Zach Behrens says researchers spotted the black bear in pictures from National Park Service camera traps.

 

"It looks like the bear is just walking by the camera. Our camera traps are triggered by motion sensors, so when something goes by like a bear, it definitely would trigger that," Behrens says.

 

They don't know for sure where the bear came from, Behrens says. But black bears do live in the nearby Santa Susana and San Gabriel mountains -- over on the north side of the 101 Freeway. More + AUDIO

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Lions born near Los Angeles, two new litters

Kellie Galentine (KPCC, scpr.org, July 6, 2016)

An LA puma, a.k.a. mountain lion (National Park Service via AP via KPCC/scpr.org)

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Where the lions of Los Angeles live

The Santa Susana Mountains have five new residents, and their cuteness factor is a welcome distraction from news of email scandals and war.

 

National Park Service researchers discovered two litters of mountain lion kittens last month, making them the 10th and 11th litters to be tagged at a den site.

 

The first litter discovered June 8 includes two females whose mother is 6-year-old P-35, according to a statement from the National Park Service.

 

The second litter -- one female and two males -- was found in a cave-like area hidden behind boulders on June 22. Their mother, P-39, appears unimpressed by the camera spying on her hidden haven in the video below. More

US Latin population growth slips behind Asians

Russell Contreras (twitter.com/russcontreras/BigStory.ap.org/The Associated Press (via mail.com); Crystal Quintero, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The growth of the U.S. Latino (Latina, Latinx) population -- once the nation's fastest growing -- slowed considerably over the past seven years and slipped behind that of Asian Americans amid declining "Hispanic" immigration and birth rates, a study released [September 8th, 2016] found.

Update: I hate social media.

The Pew Research Center study, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data, found that the U.S. Hispanic population grew annually on average by 2.8 percent between 2007 and 2014. That's down from the 4.4 percent annual growth from 2000 to 2007, before the Great Recession [which was a new Depression].

 

By comparison, the Asian American population grew around 3.4 percent on average annually during the same period. William H. Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, the slower growth is largely a factor of the economy. A slower economy is influencing families to hold off on having more children, and it's discouraging migration amid stronger border enforcement, he said.

 

Kenneth M. Johnson, a senior demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy, said U.S. Hispanic women between the ages of 20 to 24 have seen a 36 percent decline in birth rates.

 

"That's by far the largest decline of any other group," Johnson said. Despite slowing population growth, Latinos still accounted for 54 percent of the nation's population growth between 2000 and 2014, according to the nonpartisan Pew Research Center.

 

KFI AM's roving reporter Jo Kwon at the L.A. County Fair in Pomona with zebra (KFI).

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Regional growth patterns also have changed some following the economic downturn of 2007 reflecting the changing economies of states, the study found. Counties in the South continued to account for the largest share of the nation's Hispanic population growth -- 43 percent between 2007 and 2014.

Among the other fastest-growing counties for Latinos were Luzerne County in Pennsylvania, Beadle County in South Dakota, Duchesne County in Utah, and Burleigh County in North Dakota.

"Latinos are coming to Utah because the government here is doing a lot to create jobs," said Rogelio Franco of Entre Latinos, a Salt Lake City, Utah advocacy group that works to integrate Hispanics into the state. Entre Latinos was not affiliated with the study.

 

Franco said he thinks the declining birth rate is a result of Latino millennials holding off on having children while pursuing their education. "They are planning more," Franco said. "They are focusing on other things."

I'm white, you're Latina, and we're best friends. Should we go to Hawaii again? - No.

 

The growth in North Dakota's statewide Latino population nearly doubled to 18,000, making it the state with the highest Hispanic growth rate over seven years. Though small in numbers compared to states like California and Texas, the rise in Latino residents has put pressures on local governments and nonprofits to accommodate the new residents.

 

For example, in 2014 Catholic nuns from Mexico were sent to North Dakota to help serve new Hispanic parishioners in that state. North Dakota had experienced an oil boom until recently, attracting workers from around the country. It remains one of the least diverse states in the country. 

• The Making of a People: "Hispanics" and the Future of America (NCBI)
• Census: Asians remain fastest-growing racial group in US
• Trump paints new target on legal immigration

I'm Asian, you're Jewish, should we run FB?

"Latino population growth has become less concentrated in counties with historically large Latino populations and whose Latino population grew by at least 10,000," the study's authors wrote. Though the growth has slowed in the last seven years, the Latino population in the South has exploded when examined over 14 years.

We're not a model.

From 2000 to 2014, Latino populations in Tennessee and South Carolina, for example, nearly tripled. North Carolina also saw its population spike 136 percent since 2000, the report said. Mauricio Castro, an organizer with the North Carolina Congress of Latino Organizations, said Latino immigrants coming to the region tend to work in the construction or service industry.

Still, between 2007 and 2014, nearly 40 counties experienced declines in the percentage of Latinos. Most of those counties were in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas -- states with traditionally large Hispanic populations.

 

Frey said once the U.S. economy starts picking up, he expects to see a return of higher rates of immigration and increase births. "This is not the end of Latino growth in the United States by any means," Frey said. Source