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Article: Minorities unevenly distributed in New Hampshire, but growing.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- October 5, 2004
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By Patrick Meighan, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 5--MERRIMACK, N.H. -- How white is New Hampshire? The answer depends on where you're standing.
New Hampshire may be 96 percent white, but the 4 percent minority population isn't spread evenly across the state, said Dennis Delay, director of special projects at the New Hampshire Workforce Opportunity Council, Inc.
"The chance of bumping into someone of another race or culture is greater as you move from north to south," he said.
Delay delivered the keynote address Tuesday afternoon at the second-annual Business Diversity Conference at the ...