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The most spoken Asian languages in Virginia are: [5] Korean, 58,000 speakers or 0.7% of the population; the most spoken language after English and Spanish and the third most spoken language in Virginia [6] Chinese, 55,000 speakers or 0.7% of the population; Vietnamese, 51,000 speakers or 0.6% of the population; Tagalog or Filipino, 46,000 ...
Since 1957, 41 Asian Americans have been elected as U.S. Representatives and 9 as U.S. Senators. Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016).
Spanish has the most speakers of other languages, with 424,381 (5.9%). 226,911 (3.2%) speak Asian and Pacific Islander languages, including Vietnamese and Filipino. [5] The Piedmont region is one of the most famous for its dialect's strong influence on Southern American English.
Early polling first shared with NBC News shows that gun violence is a top issue for Asian American and Pacific Islander voters in Virginia ahead of the state’s November elections, in which ...
Rank City State Korean-Americans 2010 Percentage 2010 Korean-Americans 2015 Percentage 2015 1 Los Angeles: California: 108,282: 2.9 % : 110,679: 2.8 % : 2 Honolulu
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Asian Americans started to become a significant part of the Washington metropolitan area in the late twentieth century.. Fairfax County, Virginia, Montgomery County, Maryland, and Arlington, Virginia are the largest jurisdictions with high concentrations of Asian Americans in the region:
Authorities in Henrico County, Virginia, are warning residents about a pattern of home burglaries targeting Asian business owners, with at least two incidents reported in the last month. In a ...