Encyclopedia > List of United States cities with a majority Asian American population
The following is a partial list of United States cities and towns in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Asian American or Asian, according to data from the 2000 Census. This list does not include cities in which, according to the 2000 Census, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the residents are Asian American. The list below is organized by state and, within each state, by population size. The percentage of each city's population that is Asian American is listed in parentheses next to the city's name.
The demographics of the UnitedStates depict a largely urban nation, with 75% of its population living in urban and suburban areas.
The mean population center of the UnitedStates has consistently shifted westward and southward, with California and Texas currently the most populousstates.
For instance, Catholics are the majority of the population in Massachusetts and Rhode Island as are Mormons in Utah and Baptists in Mississippi.
Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the UnitedStates.
Major components of the European segment of the UnitedStatespopulation are descended from immigrants from Germany, England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy with many immigrants also from Scandinavian countries and the Slavic and other populations of eastern and southern Europe and French Canada; few immigrants came directly from France.
The social structure of the UnitedStates, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
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