Race in the United States
Historically, the practices and discussions on race in the United States usually revolve around the white and black binary. However, high Latino immigration in southern towns and cities in recent years challenges this connection between races in the region. The objective of this article was to review the available literature on this emerging trend of Latino immigration in the South and providing further insight into the subject. The authors call for further attention to the correlation between the immigration with racial practices and formations among the Southern communities and the area and geographic contingency of its characteristics in the region. Moreover, the authors recommend future studies to provide a further understanding of the critical aspects of these processes. These future studies should contextualize the immigration trend in connection to studies of the historic homes and the immigrant gateway towns of ethnicity and race in the South. The question of immigration is crucial in understanding the changing party politics in the South, which enhances the relevance of this article in the current study.