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Hmongs are the largest of the state’s Asian American groups, comprising 29%. ... including one that made May 14 Hmong-Lao Veterans Day in Wisconsin, the news release said.
Hmong Americans are the largest Asian ethnic group in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. [3] [4] Allies of the United States in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and later stages of the Laotian Civil War, they started seeking asylum as political refugees after the communist takeover in both nations in 1975, including the Hmong genocide in Laos.
In an unofficial tally from news coverage and advocacy group reports, Wisconsin Watch counted 20 Wisconsin homicide cases since 1990 in which Hmong men have killed their intimate partners and, in ...
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 American Community Survey estimates Wisconsin's Hmong population at more than 58,000.
When their village fell to the Communists, Xiong and his family fled to a refugee camp in Thailand and eventually ended up in Wisconsin in 1980. In 1996, Xiong was elected to the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, city council. Xiong was the first Hmong to be elected to a city council in Wisconsin. He ran for the state Assembly in 2004.
As of the 2010 census, 260,073 Hmong people reside in the United States, [107] the majority of whom live in California (91,224), then Minnesota (66,181), and Wisconsin (49,240), an increase from 186,310 in 2000. [108] 247,595 or 95.2% are Hmong alone, and the remaining 12,478 are mixed Hmong with some other ethnicity. The vast majority of part ...
EAU CLAIRE— For the first time since the pandemic, the Eau Claire Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association (ECAHMAA) will present a Hmong New Year celebration this weekend. The two day festival ...
Charles Vue, the very first Hmong graduate from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire became the first Hmong person to run for political office in the city. He ran for a seat on the Eau Claire School Board in 1993. Three years later, Joe Bee Xiong won the third seat out of seven on the city council and easily won reelection two years later ...