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...they could recruit Mexican teachers, they reasoned, they could make Dalton more attractive for families to come across the border. The new teachers could help the Mexican kids learn English and the American kids learn Spanish...
...fetched to think that every child in Dalton could grow up not just bilingual but familiar with both cultures," says Erwin Mitchell, a local attorney who helped recruit 17 teachers from the University of Monterrey in Mexico, where carpet mogul Bob Shaw had a contact. Dalton used public funds, of which there is a big supply, to fly the teachers here, put them up in apartments and buy them all memberships in a health club...
...white-haired Southern gentleman of 74. "Hispanic and Anglo children alike are excited about what's happening, and a lot of the rest of us are too. But I'm being selfish about it. I know these children are here to stay--as butchers, Realtors, car salesman, physicians--and Dalton is a richer place because...
...shirts at first, or that economic good times help conceal the bonehead hatred that exists everywhere. But it's not worth it. California's got economic good times too, and its anti-immigration conniptions make that state look like a backwater compared to what's going on here in Dalton of the rural South...
Marcelo Salaises, 30, misses Mexico but says the living is good in Dalton. On $10.60 an hour with benefits and profit sharing at Durkan Patterned Carpet, where he's in quality control, he and his wife bought a nice three-bedroom house for $49,000. And Thomas Durkan III, he says, orchestrated the donation of private land and helped raise $1 million for the construction of a soccer complex used primarily by Mexican families...