Hispanic Population Climbing in 'America's Greatest Familia Resort'
Census data shows Ocean City's Mexican presence growing stronger.
From Mexico City to Ocean City — 2,006 miles as the crow flies — the American Dream is luring Hispanics away from their homeland, and they're settling in Ocean City for much the same reason everyone else does: It's a safe, quiet and beautiful place to live. In the last decade, the number of Hispanics (Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, other Latino) in Ocean City increased from 1.99 percent of the population to 5.5 percent, according to U.S. Census data. The largest increase was in people of Mexican descent: At the time of the 2000 Census, 60 Mexicans called Ocean City home; in 2010, that number had swelled to 412. And this happened in a decade when Ocean City itself lost 23.9 percent of its population, as the number of residents decreased …
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Sam Lavner
10:10 am on Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Walt - Way to keep the hate alive, especially on this particular day. I'm tempted to devote a few minutes to contemplating the utter depravity of the soul and wretchedness of the mind of someone who would revive this ugly string after one year of dormancy and at 7:56 Christmas morning, but I prefer to rejoin my in-laws, all of whom are opening gifts and basking in the joy and love of the season … more ›