This should NOT looked at as something new….
Since the first people discovered this place?
Groups of people have come to settle here….
It IS the American way….
But there ARE some in this country who ARE very afraid of the newest wave of Americans…
Asian-Americans have become the fastest-growing ethnic group in the U.S., and the growth is happening fastest in the South, according to Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Data, a policy research program at the University of California, Riverside.
The number of Asian-Americans in the South increased by 69 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from the group Asian Americans Advancing Justice.
The South is the new destination for Asian immigrants.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, AAPI Data
The growing Asian population in the South includes transplants from other regions of the U.S. and immigrants from Asia, with job opportunities and a lower cost of living drawing people to the region, according to demographers.
“The South is the new destination for Asian immigrants,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, the founder of AAPI Data.
In Georgia, for example, the number of Asian-Americans grew 136 percent from 2000 to 2016, and now accounts for 4 percent of the total population. The number of Asian-Americans in Virginia grew 113 percent in the same period.
The effects of the population growth are vast. In areas where Asian-American communities have been firmly established, experts say Asian-Americans have slowly gained the potential to affect school curriculums and influence elections.
Asians are also the only ethnic group in the U.S. with more members born outside the country than inside it, according to AAPI Data, with most Asian immigrants coming in on either employment-based visas or family-based visas. This leads to diverse Asian-American communities, with distinct challenges in navigating majority-white areas and gaining political influence…..
image….U.S. AP Photo/Morry Gash
While the rapidity of Asian-American growth in the South is important, it’s hard to understand without seeing some absolute numbers and relative percentages.
At my first glance, I see only five Southern or border states either the percentage or the absolute numbers of Asian-Americans look significant relative to the nation as a whole.
It is very important in Texas, the second-most populous state, which has the third-highest population of people whose ancestry is either fully or partly Asian: nearly 1.3 million, representing 4.88% of all 26.5 million Texans, the same propotion of Asian-Americans as Connecticut’s but only 14th in state percentages.
Florida has nearly 650,000 out of 19.6 million Floridians, or 3.3%, and Virginia nearly 600,000 out of 8.25 million Virginians, or 7.2%.
Maryland and Georgia each have 415,000 – 420,000 Asian Americans representing (respectively) 7% of all Marylanders and 4.2% of all Georgians (the same Asian-American percentage as Delaware’s 39,000 Asian-Americans represent out of 925,000 people in Delaware).
North Carolina has nearly 300,000 Asian-Americans out of nearly 10 million North Carolinians, or 3%.
In none of the other Southern or border states do Asian-Americans represent so much as 150,000 people or 2.4% of the total population. [Not counting the nearly 5% they represent of the people in the District of Columbia.]
See the sortable table at
http://aapidata.com/stats/state-data/asian-nhpi-proportion-of-state-population/
The author did on the whole?
But your point about Texas being the BIGGEST state with the most IS significant….
And Florida….
Now here’s the problem I would think in the political sphere….
In each of the states you point to?
Even the small percentage COULD prove enough for someone like Joe Biden to beat Mike Pence in 2020….