Now in her mid-70s, Netervala is part of the nation’s thinning Punjabi-Mexican population, an identity forged out of historical necessity and made possible by uncanny cultural parallels.
African Americans and Asians overwhelmingly accounted for Canton's 18.1-percent population surge during the last decade — evidence the community has, indeed, become far more diverse as each year further separates the township from its rural past.
