Dragons, elephants and goldfish adorn bags of rice at a huge Asian supermarket on Buford Highway, a stretch of road where many of Atlanta's immigrants live and work. Tilapia swim in tanks beside freezers full of ox feet and green-tea ice lollies. The offerings please a growing number of locals: Asian-Americans have become the fastest-growing racial group in the South, and the Asian-American population of the Atlanta area surged by 87% in the decade after 2000. Most are born abroad. Indians are the single largest contingent (89,000 of them live in the city), followed by Koreans and then by Chinese.
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