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[[Atlanta]] has a sizeable [[Mexican Americans|Mexican]] population.<ref>{{cite book|title=Cultural Diversity in the U.S. South: Anthropological Contributions to a Region in Transition|page=150}}</ref> More than 314,351 Mexicans live in the [[Atlanta metropolitan area]]. The Mexican population in the Atlanta area is growing and started developing since the 1980s and 1990s. Mexicans are concentrated in [[Gwinnett County]]. Many Mexican men in Atlanta are construction workers. Mexicans in Atlanta are also carpenters, painters and paperhangers and construction supervisors.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://documents.atlantaregional.com/gawsnapshots/mexican.pdf|title= Mexicans - global Atlanta Snapshots|publisher=[[Atlanta Regional Commission]]}}</ref> The construction industry of Greater Atlanta has become dependent on Mexican-American labor.<ref>{{cite book|title= Education in the New Latino Diaspora: Policy and the Politics of Identity}}</ref> The Mexican population has been growing rapidly in Atlanta since 1970. Mexicans makeup the largest foreign born Latino population in Atlanta.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.asanet.org/sites/default/files/savvy/footnotes/mayjun10/am_050610.html|title= The Past and Present of Immigration in Atlanta|website=asanet.org}}</ref> Mexicans made up 61 percent of metropolitan Atlanta's Hispanic population according to the 2000 census.<ref>{{cite book|title=Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South|page=115}}</ref> |
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*[[Demographics of Atlanta]] |
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[[Category:Ethnic groups in Atlanta]] |
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