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In the 1980s and 1990s, Vietnamese people became active in the political and economic life in Louisiana, organizing voter registration drives and mobilizing against the creation of a landfill in New Orleans East adjacent to the community in Versailles. [5]
Large waves of Vietnamese arrived in New Orleans beginning around 1975 after the Fall of Saigon. [1] One reason why many Vietnamese settled in New Orleans was because of the climate similar to that of Vietnam, and Vietnam was a country colonized by France, not unlike Louisiana itself.
Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves. The first wave of Vietnamese from just before or after the Fall of Saigon/the last day of the Vietnam War, April 30, 1975. They consisted of mostly educated, white collar public servants, senior military officers, and upper and middle class Vietnamese and their families.
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The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. [1] [2] [3] Manilamen began to reside in Louisiana as the first Asian Americans to live in the continental in the United States. [4] Most Asian Americans have arrived after 1965. [5]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state's six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 ...
Louisiana is a South Central US state, with a 2020 US census resident population of 4,657,757, [2] and apportioned population of 4,661,468. [3] [4] Much of the state's population is concentrated in southern Louisiana in the Greater New Orleans, Florida Parishes, and Acadiana regions, with the remainder in North and Central Louisiana's major metropolitan areas (Shreveport-Bossier City; Monroe ...
Louisiana Creole people; M. Mina (Louisiana) R. Redbone (ethnicity) V. Vietnamese in Louisiana; W. White Americans in Louisiana;