Mayor Bill Purcell vetoed Nashville's English-Only Ordinance championed by Councilman Eric Crafton. The mayor charged that the that ordinance was unconstitutional, unnecessary and mean-spirited.
Nashville, a city of more than 600,000, is home to the nation's largest Kurdish community and a growing Latino population. Nashville's foreign-born population has grown 350 percent since 1990.
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