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In 1972, the number of American Samoans living in the United States exceeded the Samoan population in American Samoa, and California took the place of Tutuila as the main Samoan-populated region. [14] In 1980 over 22,000 Samoa-born lived in the U.S., mostly of Western Samoa (more than 13,200), while 9,300 were from American Samoa. [13]
Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American. About 55,000 people live on American Samoa, while the 2000 and 2008 US censuses have found four times the number of Samoan Americans live in the mainland US. California has the most Samoans; concentrations live in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles County, and San Diego County.
California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego. [119] California has more members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Temples than any state except Utah. [120]
The following is a list of California locations by race. According to 2010 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, people of White ancestry were the dominant racial group in California , comprising 61.8 percent of its population of 36,969,200.
Revolutionary ideals led many men to free their slaves, some by deed and others by will, so that from 1782 to 1810, the percentage of free people of color rose from less than one percent to nearly 10 percent of blacks in the South.
Researchers and coastal officials across California now have a more nuanced assessment of this daunting issue that could affect more than 530 miles of the state’s shoreline. "It's pretty ...
The San Francisco Bay Area has the largest Tongan population in California and amongst the largest nationwide along with the Salt Lake City, Utah area, with an estimated population of 5,000 in San Mateo County alone (0.6%), concentrated especially in the city of East Palo Alto (8.3%). [2]
Dustin Hanson died over the weekend after a sand avalanche buried him in a 6-foot hole that he had dug at Samoa Power Pole Beach in northern California on Wednesday, according to a GoFundMe news ...