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Article: America's midsize, 'inner Sun Belt' cities grow.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 11, 2007
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Byline: Mark Trumbull Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Murfreesboro, Tenn. -- It's not dinner time yet, and it's past lunch hour, but the Slick Pig BBQ on the outskirts of this small Southern city is hopping with customers.
And anyone who's not buying a pork sandwich is out driving down the main commercial street that arcs through Murfreesboro.
Once a sleepy Tennessee town with a Civil War past, it's now a booming mini-metropolis poised for continued growth. Population here grew 51 percent in the 1990s and has surged another 26 percent since then.
This small city near Nashville, in the center of the state, typifies a ...