How Los Angeles County became home to the biggest AAPI communities in the country

To understand the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora in Southern California, the Los Angeles Times analyzed 40 years of data from the Census Bureau. For decades, census forms treated Asians as a monolith and did not include categories for each race group.

The allocation of federal resources and funding depends on a complete enumeration of AAPI communities. There are more than 25 Asian countries and five countries in the Pacific Islander community acknowledged by federal statistics.

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