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President Barack Obama greets well-wishers after stopping for a dim sum takeout lunch in San Francisco's Chinatown on Feb. 16. California has the biggest Asian population (5.6 million) among U.S. states, according to Census data.
The Asian population grew faster than any other racial group in the U.S. over the last decade, increasing by sizable margins in nearly every state, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
Overall, the Asian population grew 43 percent from 2000 to 2010, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million. That’s four times faster than the total U.S. population growth in the same period.
Another 2.6 million people identified themselves as Asian in combination with one or more other races. The combined total means 5.6 percent of all people in the U.S. identified themselves as at least part Asian in 2010.
The Asian alone-or-in-combination population grew by at least 30 percent in all states except for Hawaii (11 percent increase). The states with the most growth were Nevada (116 percent), Arizona (95 percent), North Carolina (85 percent), North Dakota (85 percent) and Georgia (83 percent).
The Asian population grew in every region of the U.S., but was most heavily concentrated in the West (46 percent). Nearly three-fourths of all Asians lived in 10 states: California (5.6 million), New York (1.6 million), Texas (1.1 million), New Jersey (0.8 million), Hawaii (0.8 million), Illinois (0.7 million), Washington (0.6 million), Florida (0.6 million), Virginia (0.5 million), and Pennsylvania (0.4 million).
New York (1.1 million) had the largest Asian population among cities -- more than double that of runner-up Los Angeles (484,000).
The Chinese population was the largest Asian group, followed by Filipino and Asian Indian.
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Asia for Asians, Africa for Africans, White countries for everyone?
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into White countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY White countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-Whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries? How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem? And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives will just say that I'm a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White.