The Government Researched How To ‘Increase Demographic Diversity’ In Rural America Through Immigration

A put its demographic ambitions in writing. The long-term goal of its Welcoming Communities initiative was to build a system that would: “support immigration and in-migration to southern Vermont and an increase in demographic diversity.” That language appeared in an April 7, 2021 announcement bylined Alex Beck⁠, then the initiative’s coordinator at the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation, or BDCC... ...The organization is a private nonprofit serving as a state-certified regional development corporation. ... ...Increasing demographic diversity was an explicit objective of an initiative supported with public money.... ...UVM described a dual purpose: improving the local program and: “serving as a...