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Percentage Who Live in<\/p>\n
Overcrowded Housing in Minnesota<\/p>\n
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2007-2008
\nAmerican Community Survey 3-Year Estimates)<\/p>\n
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Percent of Population Who Have Limited English Proficiency (5 years of age or older)<\/p>\n
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau. 2007-2009
\nAmerican Community Survey 3-Year Estimates)<\/p>\n
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Per Capita Income in Minnesota<\/p>\n
(Source: American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates)<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Although the North Star State is less racially diverse than its American coastal counterparts, <\/b>there is\u00a0a significant population of Asian Americans, and the number has been increasing throughout the recent years. Bolstered by the influx of Vietnamese and Hmong refugees between 1975 and 1999, the population of\u00a0Asian American in Minnesota has grown to 4%. \u00a0Overall Minnesota has a growing Asian population\u00a0<\/strong>that includes not only Southeast Asian but a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. Similar to most regions in the United States,\u00a0Minnesota\u2019s early Asian\u00a0Pacific population were predominately Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos (Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, 2012). The earliest documentation of\u00a0Asians in Minnesota was a man named Wang See Ling from China who arrived in 1875; in 1880 two Chinese men established the Chinese Laundry in St. Paul\u00a0and the Lung Wing Laundry in Minneapolis (Holmquist, 1981). Of course, there were foreign students who came here for higher education, beginning more than a century ago. For instance, the first group of Chinese students attended the University of Minnesota \u00a0in 1914 (China 100, 2014). Asian population can be seen in almost every corner in the state nowadays with Southeast Asian population reached about 1.2 million in 2010 (Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, 2012).<\/p>\n