about us get connected the buzz resources ... outside the box press releases... Los Angeles Times Friday, March 30, 2001 Title: Fastest Growth of Any Ethnic Group in State
Biggest increase was in the suburbs. Southern California's expansion was geographic and economic.
By PETER Y. HONG and DANIEL YI, Times Staff Writers In Southern California and statewide, Asian Americans outpaced every other ethnic group in the rate of population growth during the 1990s, with some of the most dramatic jumps occurring in suburbs, 2000 census data show. California's Asian American population grew 38% in the last decade, surpassing the growth rate of the state's Latino population, which was 35%. Asian Americans expanded their reach in Southern California both geographically and economically: Orange County now has a higher percentage of Asian American residents than does Los Angeles County, and Asian Americans edged into the majority in San Marino, one of America's wealthiest communities.
The census results show an acceleration of trends identified 10 years earlier in the 1990 census, UCLA demographer Paul Ong said. "In 1990, we saw the emergence of middle-class [Asian] enclaves in the San Gabriel Valley," in such cities as Monterey Park, Ong said. "Now, there are more affluent areas" seeing strong Asian American growth, Ong said. | |
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