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KSNB | Weather | Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney | News, Sports, Weather

Nebraska Evolving: The perception is that Nebraska’s smaller communities are dying. The reality is that many rural Nebraska counties are now growing for one reason. Immigration.

KSNB | Weather | Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney | News, Sports, Weather
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In 1990 , Wakefield , Nebraska , was home to 1,082 people, census showed 99.9% white.

Now Wakefield has jumped to more than 1,500 residents while transforming into a community roughly half white and half Latino.

Wakefield began as a community of immigrants, working class people from Germany and Sweden .

Experts say immigration is key to the survival of rural Nebraska .

In 1990 , Nebraska ’s population was 1.8% foreign born.

Now, Nebraska is 7.2% foreign-born.

From 1990 to 2020 , Nebraska added 383,110 people. Nebraskans of color were responsible for 93% of that growth.

In Wakefield , the only grocery store in rural Nebraska is a one -stop shop for Latin American cooking.

Last year , Wakefield , Nebraska , tried to pass a $46.8 million bond to build a high school and add an elementary school wing.

The bond issue crashed and burned, but the melting pot student body should be viewed as an asset, the town's economic development director says.

VR Score

84

Informative language

83

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79

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semi-formal

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English

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38

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short-lived

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