Where is Fort Smith today?
Since those early days, Fort Smith has become home for a wonderfully diverse group of people. Today, Fort Smith is known as a Sister City of Cisterna, Italy because of the fostering friendships between the two cities, thanks to the heroics of General William O. Darby and the Darby Rangers. Fort Chaffee was the first “home” for thousands of Vietnamese and later Cuban refugees brought to this country. Fort Smith is currently a city of 80,268 with 77% European-American, 8.6% African-American, 8.8% Hispanic-American and 4.6% Asian-American and 1.7% Native-American in population. According to the 2000 census, African-Americans will soon be the third largest population group in the United States, instead of the second largest which will be the Hispanic population. According to one estimate, by 2020 the number of non-white or Hispanic inhabitants of America will have doubled, while the white population will remain essentially unchanged. By 2050, the percentage of Asian-Americans will have qui
