The story was published August 11.
Written by a Los Angles Times writer and accompanied by pictures taken by a photographer from the newspaper, it goes into great detail about the Hispanic taxi cab companies in Gainesville and the use of the taxis by the Latino community.
Also discussed are efforts by local law enforcement to educate Hispanics on complying with the state's motor vehicle laws and the flight of many in the immigrant community to other parts of the country or back to their native country because of Georgia's crackdown on illegal immigrants.
It also describes Gainesville as a former "Ku Klux Klan stronghold" and cites newspaper accounts that describe one KKK demonstration in 1989 attended by nearly 300 Klan members to protest the number of Latinos in town "who, they claimed, were taking jobs from locals." The article also notes that the KKK rally "drew more than 1,500 counter-protesters."
As of mid-morning Wednesday, according to the paper's Web site, the article, one in a series on "The New Latino South," had garnered 447 comments from its readers.
(A link to the full story is listed below.)
http://accesswdun.com/article/2011/8/241150