Latino Magnet
The 17th annual Latin American Festival at Charlotte’s Mint Museum of Art, 2007.
Photo by Joelle Karout, courtesy of Mint Museums.
Photo by Joelle Karout, courtesy of Mint Museums.
Latinos are moving here because they've heard it's a nice community. It's a nice place to raise your family.
- Denise Coleman, Latin American Coalition
Until the 1990s, Latinos were rare in the Carolinas. Today the Southeast has the fastest-growing Latino population in the nation.
The Charlotte metro area ranked second in the U.S. in Latino growth, 2000 – 2005. More than 80,000 Latinos call Mecklenburg County home. One-third of them were born in the U.S.
