Chinanews.com, August 23. According to a comprehensive report from the US "World Journal", the latest US census data shows that the Asian population has almost tripled in the past 30 years, with the fastest growth among the four major racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

However, further analysis by the New York Times found that in addition to the growth of the total population of Asians, income, citizenship, and political preferences are all very different due to different geographic distributions, showing geographic diversification.

  With a population of nearly 20 million Asian Americans, the composition is complex, with origins from more than 20 countries including East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent.

In 1990, the Asian American population was 6.6 million, mainly concentrated in a few coastal cities.

Thirty years later, these Asian-concentrated areas have grown significantly, and Asian-Americans have also spread out, creating family life in the southern suburbs and central and western rural areas; the number of counties where Asians account for more than 5% of the total population has increased from 39 in 1990. Number, increasing to 176 in 2020.

  North and South Dakota, Texas, North Carolina, and Indiana have all experienced substantial growth in the Asian population in the past decade.

More and more Asians are settled in West Virginia and other states where the total population is declining.

  The New York Times analysis pointed out that the diversity of the Asian population is often overlooked, and most statistics regard Asians as a whole, but the actual situation is more subtle.

In addition, while the U.S. treats Asians as a single race, 3.5 million people are considered Asian mixed, accounting for more than a quarter of the American mixed population.

  Nearly 60% of Asian descent (including mixed-race children) were born outside the United States, and most are naturalized citizens.

Whether naturalized or born in the United States, the vast majority of Asian Americans are citizens.

  The income of Asian households exceeds the total household income of the American population, and their education level is higher.

However, there are big differences in age and income among different Asian groups.

  The income gap is mainly affected by the types of work performed by different groups and how many people in each family make money; the latter is often restricted by whether or not they have citizenship.

Most healthcare workers are of Filipino descent, but more Filipino workers work in the service industry, and many of them do not have citizenship.

  The median income of Korean families whose heads were born in the United States was US$95,000, but the median income of Korean families whose heads were non-citizens was only US$54,000.

  People of Indian descent account for a large proportion of high-paying fields such as computer science, financial management and medicine.

9% of doctors in the United States are of Indian descent, and more than half of them are immigrants.

  Asians born in the United States tend to be younger, and half of them are children.

They are the children of older naturalized citizens who immigrated to the United States from the previous generation.

  Asians continue to grow in the American demographic structure, and their role in electoral politics is becoming more and more critical.

New York Times analysis found that in the 2020 presidential election, a highly concentrated community of Asian residents overwhelmingly supported President Biden.

But there are still differences between different groups.

  As the number of Asians continues to grow rapidly, demographers predict that the Asian population will exceed 46 million by 2060.

(Hu Yuli)