The Los Angeles Times analyzed 40 years of data from the Census, charting the growth of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles County is home to more Asian Americans than any other county in the United States. California is home to roughly 6 million Asian and Pacific Islanders, the most in the country, with the seven Southern California counties accounting for half of the state’s
communities. There are more than 25 Asian countries and five countries in the Pacific Islander community acknowledged by federal statistics. First imagined as a political identity, the term 'Asian American' was coined in the late 1960s by Chinese, Japanese and Filipino American activists in California. Today it refers to ethnic groups who trace their origins to East, Southeast, South and Central Asia.
population in Los Angeles grew from 198,000 in 1970 to almost a million in 1990, according to researchers at UCLA. There are 14 Asian-majority suburbs in Los Angeles County, and all but one, Cerritos, are in the San Gabriel Valley. L.A. County has gained 2 million people since 1980, with the Asian population more than tripling from 417,000 to over 1.4 million today.
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