Spurred by the state's high-tech boom, Californians of Indian descent have become the fastest growing group within the state's fastest growing race. Meanwhile, the number of residents of Japanese origin declined during the 1990s, according to new census data.
The explosive growth in California's Asian population has masked vast differences between the people making up that group. Those differences came into sharper focus as the Census Bureau released more detailed data this week.
At one extreme, professional Asians are earning more than their counterparts from any other race. Meanwhile, however, though refugees from Southeast Asia continued to grow in number their economic progress continues to lag.
Overall, the state's population rose 14 percent in the 1990s, with those identifying as at least part Asian jumped 61 percent.
While California has long been home to Asians from Pacific Rim countries, the 1990s saw a slight shift in that historical pattern.
The number Japanese Americans fell 8 percent to 289,000 during the 1990s. Meanwhile, pacing the population surge were residents of Indian descent, who immigrated in such high numbers that their statewide population rose 97 percent to 315,000 people
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