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Asian Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Asian ancestry. California has the largest Asian American population in the United States, and second highest proportion of Asian American residents, after Hawaii. As of the 2020 US census, there were over 6 million Asian Americans in California; 15.5% of the state's ...
Vince Fong, the son of Chinese immigrants, is the first Asian American to represent California’s 20th district in Congress. McCarthy’s congressional replacement brings Asian representation to ...
Connie Chung led the way for future Asian-American woman journalists as a reporter on network news from the 1970s to 2006. [2] She started with coverage of the Watergate trial in the early 1970s and later did the short news announcements between evening television programs for West Coast CBS television stations in a segment called CBS Newbreak ...
Gary Locke, elected the first Asian American governor in the mainland United States in November 1996 and became Governor of Washington in January 1997. John Liu, became the first Asian American elected to the New York City Council (representing Flushing, Queens) in 2001. Kinjiro Matsudaira, mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, in 1927 and 1943
California's first state-legislated Southeast Asian model curriculum aims to change that. ... About 1 in 10 Asian Americans lives in poverty, but that rate is 17% of Hmong Americans and doubles to ...
In California, the state with the most Asian American residents, 88% of that demographic say they plan to vote in the coming election — but around half say they haven’t been contacted by ...
Hazel Ying Lee (李月英) – first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license; flew for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) Kurt Lee – Major, US Marine Corps.; first Asian American Marine Corps officer, Navy Cross recipient [7] [8]
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