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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 ...
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
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]
Los Angeles was economically booming after World War II and presenting an American dream for Asian immigrants rooted in Southern California suburbanization. Mass migration to the area from other ...
Historically there has been a population of Chinese Americans in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. As of 2010, there were 393,488 Chinese Americans in Los Angeles County, 4.0% of the county's population, and 66,782 Chinese Americans in the city of Los Angeles (1.8% of the total population). [1]
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 ...
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 ...
There is also a large Asian population in Monterey Park, South San Gabriel, and Montebello. [5] Between 2010 and 2020, the population of Asian American residents in the city grew by 8.2%. [6] There are around 930,000 Asian Americans and 7,700 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander immigrants living in Los Angeles County. [7]