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href="/wiki/Oceanian_Americans" title="Oceanian Americans">Oceanian Americans</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ethnic group</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Pacific Islander Americans</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif/220px-New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif/330px-New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif/440px-New_2000_hawaiian_percent.gif 2x" data-file-width="2604" data-file-height="2012" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Alone (one race)</b><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> <b>689,966</b> (<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.21% of the total US population<br /><br /><b>In combination (<a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">multiracial</a>)</b><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> <b>896,497</b> (<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.27% of the total US population<br /><br /><b>Alone or in combination</b><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> <b>1,586,463</b> (<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span> 0.48% of the total US population</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Predominantly in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a>, <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii"><img alt="Hawaii" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/23px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/35px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/46px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></th><td class="infobox-data">157,445<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/California" title="California"><img alt="California" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/23px-Flag_of_California.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/35px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_California.svg/45px-Flag_of_California.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></th><td class="infobox-data">157,263<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)"><img alt="Washington (state)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/23px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/35px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flag_of_Washington.svg/46px-Flag_of_Washington.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1106" data-file-height="658" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a></th><td class="infobox-data">64,933<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah"><img alt="Utah" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/23px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/35px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Flag_of_Utah.svg/46px-Flag_of_Utah.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="432" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a></th><td class="infobox-data">36,930<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas"><img alt="Texas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/45px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></th><td class="infobox-data">33,611<sup id="cite_ref-Islander_Population_2020_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Islander_Population_2020-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/American_English" title="American English">American English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_languages" title="Oceanic languages">Oceanic languages</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polytheism" title="Polytheism">Polytheism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith" title="Baháʼí Faith">Baháʼí</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormonism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Taoism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confucianism" title="Confucianism">Confucianism</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Pasifika_New_Zealanders" title="Pasifika New Zealanders">Pasifika New Zealanders</a>, other <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islanders</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Pacific Islander Americans</b> (also colloquially referred to as <b>Islander Americans</b>) are <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">Americans</a> who are of <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islander</a> ancestry (or are descendants of the <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Oceania" title="Indigenous peoples of Oceania">Indigenous peoples of Oceania</a>). For its purposes, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_census" title="United States census">United States census</a> also counts <a href="/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians" title="Aboriginal Australians">Aboriginal Australians</a> as part of this group.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Umich_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Umich-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.5% of the US population including those with partial Pacific Islander ancestry, enumerating about 1.4 million people. The largest ethnic subgroups of Pacific Islander Americans are <a href="/wiki/Native_Hawaiians" title="Native Hawaiians">Native Hawaiians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samoan_Americans" title="Samoan Americans">Samoans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorros</a>. Much of the Pacific Islander population resides in Hawaii, Alaska, California, Utah, and Texas. </p><p>Pacific Islanders may be considered <a href="/wiki/Oceanian_Americans" title="Oceanian Americans">Oceanian Americans</a>, but this group may include Australians and New Zealander-origin people, who can be of non-Pacific Islander ethnicity. Many Pacific Islander Americans are mixed with other races, especially Europeans and Asians, due to Pacific Islanders being a small population in several communities across the mainland US. </p><p><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a> are <a href="/wiki/Insular_area" title="Insular area">insular areas</a> (<a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">US territories</a>), while <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> is a <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_stage:_Hawaiian_migration_(18th-19th_centuries)"><span id="First_stage:_Hawaiian_migration_.2818th-19th_centuries.29"></span>First stage: Hawaiian migration (18th-19th centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: First stage: Hawaiian migration (18th-19th centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="1813 sketch of Fort Astoria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg/220px-Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg/330px-Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg/440px-Franchere_fort_astoria_1813.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="416" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Franch%C3%A8re" title="Gabriel Franchère">Gabriel Franchère</a>'s 1813 sketch of Fort Astoria</figcaption></figure> <p>Migration from <a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> began in the last decade of the 18th century, but the first migrants to arrive in the country were <a href="/wiki/Native_Hawaiians" title="Native Hawaiians">Native Hawaiians</a>. People from other Oceanian backgrounds (except Australians and Māori) did not migrate to the United States until the late 19th century. The first Native Hawaiians to live in the present-day US were fur traders. They were hired by British fur traders in <a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a> and taken to the <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_United_States" title="Northwestern United States">Northwestern US</a>, from where trade networks developed with Honolulu. However, they charged less than <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">Americans</a> for doing the same jobs and returned to Hawaii when their contracts ended. The first Native Hawaiians to live permanently in the US settled in the <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Oregon" title="Astoria, Oregon">Astoria colony</a> (in present-day <a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a>) in 1811, having been brought there by its founder, fur merchant <a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor" title="John Jacob Astor">John Jacob Astor</a>. Astor created the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Fur_Company" title="Pacific Fur Company">Pacific Fur Company</a> in the colony and used the Native Hawaiians to build the city's infrastructure and houses and to develop the primary sector (agriculture, hunting and fishing). The labor employment of the Native Hawaiians was done to make them serve the company (although later, most of them worked for <a href="/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company">North West Company</a> when this company absorbed the Pacific Fur Company in 1813). </p><p>After 1813, Native Hawaiians continued to migrate to the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Northwest" title="Pacific Northwest">Pacific Northwest</a>. They migrated to work in companies such as the <a href="/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company">Hudson's Bay Company</a> (which absorbed the North West Company in 1821) and the Columbia Fishing and Trading Company, as well as in Christian missions.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since 1819, some groups of Polynesian Protestant students immigrated to the United States to study theology.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the 1830s, another group of Native Hawaiians arrived on California's shores,<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where they were traders and formed communities. So, they made up 10% of the population of <a href="/wiki/Yerba_Buena,_California" title="Yerba Buena, California">Yerba Buena</a>, now <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, in 1847. During the <a href="/wiki/California_gold_rush" title="California gold rush">California gold rush</a>, many other Native Hawaiians migrated to California to work as miners.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1889, the first Polynesian <a href="/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism">Mormon</a> colony was founded in Utah and consisted of Native Hawaiians, Tahitians, Samoans, and Māori.<sup id="cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Encyclopedia1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in the late 19th century, small groups of Pacific Islanders, usually sailors, moved to the western shores, mainly on San Francisco.<sup id="cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asian_American_History_and_Culture-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, the US occupied Hawaii in 1896, <a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a> in 1898, and <a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a> in 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-DoI_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DoI-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This fact diversified Oceanian emigration in the US. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_stage_(20th-21st_centuries)"><span id="Second_stage_.2820th-21st_centuries.29"></span>Second stage (20th-21st centuries)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Second stage (20th-21st centuries)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>However, the first record of non-Hawaiian Pacific Islanders in the US is from 1910,<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the first Guamanians living in the US. In the following decades small groups of people from islands such as Hawaii, Guam,<sup id="cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asian_American_History_and_Culture-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tonga, or American Samoa emigrated to the US. Many of them were Mormons (including most of Tongans and American Samoans),<sup id="cite_ref-Pettey_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pettey-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barkan3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who emigrated to help build Mormon churches,<sup id="cite_ref-Pettey_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pettey-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to seek an education, either in <a href="/wiki/Laie,_Hawaii" class="mw-redirect" title="Laie, Hawaii">Laie</a><sup id="cite_ref-Barkan3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MPI_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPI-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the emigration of Pacific Islanders to the US was small until the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when many American Samoans,<sup id="cite_ref-Stantom_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stantom-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Guamanians (who got the American citizenship in 1929),<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Tongans emigrated to the US. Most of them were in the military or married with military people,<sup id="cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asian_American_History_and_Culture-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but some Pacific Islanders, particularly Tongans, looked for a job in several religious and cultural centers. Since then the emigration increased and diversified every decade, with a majority emigrating to the Western urban areas and Hawaii.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This increase and diversification in the Oceanian emigration was especially true in the 1950s. In 1950, the population of Guam gained full American citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-Pettey_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pettey-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1952, the natives of American Samoa become American nationals, although not American citizens, through the <a href="/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1952" title="Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952">Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Citizenship_Clause_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizenship_Clause-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly thereafter, the first major waves of migration from American Samoa<sup id="cite_ref-From_Polynesia_to_California_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-From_Polynesia_to_California-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stantom_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stantom-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Guam<sup id="cite_ref-Neurodegenerative_Disease_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neurodegenerative_Disease-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> emerged, while other groups of places such as <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesia" title="French Polynesia">French Polynesia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Fiji" title="Fiji">Fiji</a> began to emigrate. Over 5,100 Pacific Islanders emigrated to the United States in the 1950s, mostly from American Samoa, Guam, and Tonga.<sup id="cite_ref-Embry_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Embry-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first of them were Samoan military personnel, who had worked at the American bases of <a href="/wiki/Pago_Pago" class="mw-redirect" title="Pago Pago">Pago Pago</a> but moved to the Honolulu's American bases when American Samoa began to be administered by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" title="United States Department of the Interior">US Department of the Interior</a>, as well as their relatives.<sup id="cite_ref-Pacific_Diaspora_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pacific_Diaspora-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pettey_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pettey-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the new Pacific Islander immigrants were Mormons<sup id="cite_ref-Embry_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Embry-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and many islanders from the region emigrated to the US seeking economic opportunities. </p><p>In 1959, Hawaii became a state<sup id="cite_ref-celebrating-50-years-of-statehood_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-celebrating-50-years-of-statehood-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and its natives got US citizenship. This made more than 630,000 people Americans;<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> many of them were Pacific Islanders, both Native Hawaiians and people of other Oceanian origins. Thus, the Hawaiian migration to the continental US began to increase. In the 1960s, many more Pacific Islanders emigrated to the US, mainly due to increased migration from Guam,<sup id="cite_ref-Civil_Rights_Digest_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Civil_Rights_Digest-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fiji, Tonga,<sup id="cite_ref-MPI_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPI-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Danver_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Danver-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Samoa archipelago (both independent and American <a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a><sup id="cite_ref-Barkan3_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-Gershon_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gershon-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Pacific Islanders migrated by diverse reasons: Many Guamanians fled the <a href="/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a> and <a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Karen" title="Typhoon Karen">Typhoon Karen</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Civil_Rights_Digest_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Civil_Rights_Digest-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Fijian population living in the US skyrocketed from a few dozen people in the 1950s to more than 400 people. The Pacific Islander migration increased especially since 1965,<sup id="cite_ref-MPI_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPI-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barkan3_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Danver_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Danver-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when the United States government facilitated the non-European migration to the US.<sup id="cite_ref-MPI_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPI-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of them were recruited to pick fruit in California.<sup id="cite_ref-Civil_Rights_Digest_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Civil_Rights_Digest-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1970s, over nine thousand Pacific Islanders migrated to the US, mostly from Samoa<sup id="cite_ref-From_Polynesia_to_California_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-From_Polynesia_to_California-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (both Western and American<sup id="cite_ref-Connell_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Connell-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), Guam, Tonga, and Fiji, but also from other islands such as <a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a> or Palau. Many of these people emigrated to the US to study at its universities.<sup id="cite_ref-microsabroadfr_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-microsabroadfr-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moreover, in the 1980s, migration from the Pacific Islands to the United States became more diversified when this country acquired the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Marianas_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Marianas Islands">Northern Marianas Islands</a> in 1986<sup id="cite_ref-Nov4_1986_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nov4_1986-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and signed an agreement with <a href="/wiki/TTPI" class="mw-redirect" title="TTPI">TTPI</a> (FSM, Palau and the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>) called the <a href="/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association" title="Compact of Free Association">Compact of Free Association</a>. The Compact of Free Association allows the inhabitants from TTPI to travel and work in the US without visas.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the other hand, the <a href="/wiki/Tyson_Foods" title="Tyson Foods">Tyson Foods</a> company, which employed a significant part of the population of the Marshall Islands, relocated many of its Marshellese employees in <a href="/wiki/Springdale,_Arkansas" title="Springdale, Arkansas">Springdale, Arkansas</a>, where the company is based.<sup id="cite_ref-nwaonline_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nwaonline-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, most of Pacific Islanders continued to migrate to western urban areas and Hawaii.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More of five thousand Pacific Islanders migrated to the US in the 1990s, settling mostly in western cities such as <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, San Francisco, <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, or Salt Lake City.<sup id="cite_ref-Barkan4_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000 US census</a>, almost all the countries of Oceania were mentioned, although only the ethnic groups mentioned in the article consisted of thousands of people.<sup id="cite_ref-ancestry2000_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ancestry2000-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 2000s and 2010s, several thousands more Pacific Islanders emigrated to the US. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_(41914911444).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg/220px-Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg/330px-Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg/440px-Utah_Pasifika_Festival_keiki_%2841914911444%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4336" data-file-height="3234" /></a><figcaption>Utah Pasifika Festival</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Demography">Demography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 2000 and <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010 censuses</a>, the term "Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander" refers to people having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Marshalls or other Pacific Islands. Most Pacific Islander Americans are of Native Hawaiian, <a href="/wiki/Samoan_Americans" title="Samoan Americans">Samoan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro</a> origin. </p><p>The fact that Hawaii is a US state (meaning that almost the entire native Hawaiian population lives in the US), as well as the migration and high birth rate of the Pacific Islanders have favored the permanence and increase of this population in the US (especially in the number of people who are of partial Pacific Islander descent). In the 2000 census, over 800,000 people claimed to be of Pacific Islander descent and in the 2010 census 1,225,195 Americans claimed "'Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander'" as their race alone or in combination. Most of them live in urban areas of Hawaii and California, but they also have sizeable populations in <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, Oregon, <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>. On the other hand, Pacific Islander Americans represent the majority (or are the main ethnic group) in American Samoa, Guam, and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a>, from where many of them are natives. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Areas_of_origin">Areas of origin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Areas of origin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Melanesian_Americans">Melanesian Americans</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Melanesian Americans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melanesian Americans are Americans of <a href="/wiki/Melanesians" title="Melanesians">Melanesian</a> descent. </p><p>Most of them are of <a href="/wiki/Fijian_Americans" title="Fijian Americans">Fijian descent</a>. Most Fijian Americans are of <a href="/wiki/Fijians" title="Fijians">Fijian</a> and Indian descent. More than 32,000 people of Fijian origin live in the US. Most of them live in California. </p><p>Smaller communities of <a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_people_of_New_Guinea" title="Indigenous people of New Guinea">Papuan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ni-Vanuatu" title="Ni-Vanuatu">Vanuatuan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Solomon Islander</a> origin also live in the US. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Micronesian_Americans">Micronesian Americans</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Micronesian Americans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Micronesian_Americans" title="Micronesian Americans">Micronesian Americans</a> are Americans of <a href="/wiki/Micronesians" title="Micronesians">Micronesian</a> descent. They come from the whole region, mainly from the Mariana Islands, but also from territories as the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia" title="Federated States of Micronesia">Federated States of Micronesia</a> or <a href="/wiki/Palau" title="Palau">Palau</a>. </p><p>There are more than 8,000 people living in the US whose origins are in the Federated States of Micronesia. Most of them live in Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Texas, as well as in Mariana Islands. Another 7,000 Americans are of <a href="/wiki/Palauan_Americans" title="Palauan Americans">Palauan</a> descent. </p><p>According to the 2010 census, the largest Chamorro populations were located in California, Washington, and Texas, but their combined number from these three states totaled less than half the number living throughout the US. It also revealed that the Chamorro people are the most geographically dispersed Oceanian ethnicity in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-chamCen_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chamCen-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Marshallese_Americans" title="Marshallese Americans">Marshallese Americans</a> come from the <a href="/wiki/Marshall_Islands" title="Marshall Islands">Marshall Islands</a>. In the 2010 census, 22,434 Americans identified as being of Marshallese descent. Due to the Marshall Islands entering the Compact of Free Association in 1986, Marshallese have been allowed to migrate and work in the US. There are many reasons why Marshallese came to the US. Some Marshallese came for educational opportunities, particularly for their children. Others sought work or better health care than what is available in the islands. Massive layoffs by the Marshallese government in 2000 led to a second big wave of immigration. Arkansas has the largest Marshallese population with over 6,000 residents. Many live in <a href="/wiki/Springdale,_Arkansas" title="Springdale, Arkansas">Springdale</a>, and the Marshallese constitute over 5% of the city's population. Other significant Marshallese populations include <a href="/wiki/Spokane,_Washington" title="Spokane, Washington">Spokane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Costa_Mesa,_California" title="Costa Mesa, California">Costa Mesa</a>. </p><p>Smaller communities of <a href="/wiki/Kiribati" title="Kiribati">I-Kiribati</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nauruans" title="Nauruans">Nauruan</a> origins also live in the US. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Polynesian_Americans">Polynesian Americans</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Polynesian Americans"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Polynesian Americans are Americans of <a href="/wiki/Polynesians" title="Polynesians">Polynesian</a> descent. </p><p>Large subcategories of Polynesian Americans include Native Hawaiians and Samoan Americans. In addition there are smaller communities of <a href="/wiki/Tongan_Americans" title="Tongan Americans">Tongan Americans</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Polynesian_Americans" title="French Polynesian Americans">French Polynesian Americans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Americans" title="Māori Americans">Māori Americans</a>. </p><p>There is a notable Native Hawaiian presence in <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a>. The city is sometimes called the "Ninth Island" in reference to the eight islands of Hawaii.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A Samoan American is an American who is of ethnic <a href="/wiki/Samoans" title="Samoans">Samoan</a> descent from either the independent nation <a href="/wiki/Samoa" title="Samoa">Samoa</a> or the <a href="/wiki/Insular_area" title="Insular area">American territory</a> of American Samoa. Samoan American is a subcategory of Polynesian American. About 55,000 people live on American Samoa, while the 2000 and 2008 US censuses have found four times the number of Samoan Americans live in the mainland US. California has the most Samoans; concentrations live in the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles County">Los Angeles County</a>, and <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_County" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego County">San Diego County</a>. <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a> has approximately 2,000 people of Samoan ancestry, and other Bay Area cities such as <a href="/wiki/East_Palo_Alto,_California" title="East Palo Alto, California">East Palo Alto</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daly_City,_California" title="Daly City, California">Daly City</a> have Samoan communities. In Los Angeles County, <a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_California" title="Long Beach, California">Long Beach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Carson,_California" title="Carson, California">Carson</a> have abundant Samoan communities, as well as in <a href="/wiki/Oceanside,_California" title="Oceanside, California">Oceanside</a> in San Diego County.<sup id="cite_ref-malcolmx_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-malcolmx-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-latimes09_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes09-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_of_the_United_States" title="West Coast of the United States">West Coast</a> metropolitan areas such as <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> have strong Samoan communities, mainly in <a href="/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington">King County</a> and in <a href="/wiki/Tacoma,_Washington" title="Tacoma, Washington">Tacoma</a>. <a href="/wiki/Anchorage" class="mw-redirect" title="Anchorage">Anchorage</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Honolulu" title="Honolulu">Honolulu</a>, Hawaii, both have thousands of Samoan Americans residing in each city. Persons born in American Samoa are US nationals, but not <a href="/wiki/Citizenship_of_the_United_States" title="Citizenship of the United States">US citizens</a> (this is the only circumstance under which an individual would be one and not the other).<sup id="cite_ref-Citizenship_Clause_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Citizenship_Clause-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For this reason, Samoans can move to Hawaii or the mainland US and obtain citizenship comparatively easily. Like Native Hawaiians, Samoans arrived in the mainland in the 20th century as agricultural laborers and factory workers. Elsewhere in the US, Samoan Americans are plentiful throughout the state of Utah, as well as in <a href="/wiki/Killeen,_Texas" title="Killeen, Texas">Killeen, Texas</a>; <a href="/wiki/Norfolk,_Virginia" title="Norfolk, Virginia">Norfolk, Virginia</a>; and <a href="/wiki/Independence,_Missouri" title="Independence, Missouri">Independence, Missouri</a>. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Tongan_Americans" title="Tongan Americans">Tongan American</a> is an American who is of ethnic Tongan descent. Utah has the largest Tongan American population, followed by Hawaii. Many of the first Tongan Americans came to the United States in connection to <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>. They have strong presence in parts of <a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Valley" title="Salt Lake Valley">Salt Lake Valley</a> in Utah, especially <a href="/wiki/West_Valley_City" class="mw-redirect" title="West Valley City">West Valley City</a> and Salt Lake City. Utah is roughly one percent Tongan, a high rate compared to Tongans only making up less than a scant 0.02% of the US population. Tongan communities are also more common in the West Coast, such as <a href="/wiki/San_Mateo_County,_California" title="San Mateo County, California">San Mateo County</a>, some areas of the <a href="/wiki/South_Bay_(Los_Angeles_County)" title="South Bay (Los Angeles County)">South Bay</a> of Los Angeles, and the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area of Washington. <a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a> is also home to a Tongan community that started to emigrate in the 1970s. The <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, Texas suburb of <a href="/wiki/Euless,_Texas" title="Euless, Texas">Euless</a> also has a Tongan population in the low thousands. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins_(alone_or_in_any_combination)"><span id="Origins_.28alone_or_in_any_combination.29"></span>Origins (alone or in any combination)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Origins (alone or in any combination)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Pacific Islander Americans in the 2020<sup id="cite_ref-ancestry2020_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ancestry2020-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> United States censuses </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Ancestry</th> <th rowspan="2" class="unsortable">Flag</th> <th colspan="2">2020 </th></tr> <tr> <th width="150">Numbers</th> <th>% </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Fijian_Americans" title="Fijian Americans">Fijian</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Fiji.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/50px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/75px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Fiji.svg/100px-Flag_of_Fiji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>More than 54,000</b> ("Fijians": <b>54,006</b><br /> <a href="/wiki/Rotumans" title="Rotumans">Rotumans</a>: 377) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/French_Polynesian_Americans" title="French Polynesian Americans">French Polynesian</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg/50px-Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg/75px-Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg/100px-Flag_of_French_Polynesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td>Tahitian: <b>7,935</b><br /> "French Polynesian": 754 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Marshallese_Americans" title="Marshallese Americans">Marshallese</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Marshall_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1140" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>52,624</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Micronesia" title="Micronesia">Micronesian</a>" (not specified) </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1140" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>45,364</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Micronesian_Americans" title="Micronesian Americans">Micronesian (FSM)</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td>More than <b>12,000</b> (<a href="/wiki/Kosrae" title="Kosrae">Kosraean</a>: <b>2,148</b><br /> <a href="/wiki/Pohnpei_State" title="Pohnpei State">Pohnpeian</a>: <b>4,918</b><br /> <a href="/wiki/Chuuk_State" title="Chuuk State">Chuukese</a>: <b>12,464</b><br /> <a href="/wiki/Yap_State" title="Yap State">Yapese</a>: <b>2,066</b>) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Zealand_Americans" title="New Zealand Americans">Polynesians with New Zealand citizenship</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_Americans" title="Māori Americans">Māori</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tokelau" title="Tokelau">Tokelauans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Niueans" class="mw-redirect" title="Niueans">Niueans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cook_Islanders" title="Cook Islanders">Cook Islanders</a>) </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg/50px-Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg/75px-Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg/100px-Tino_Rangatiratanga_Maori_sovereignty_movement_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tokelau.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_Tokelau.svg/50px-Flag_of_Tokelau.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_Tokelau.svg/75px-Flag_of_Tokelau.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Flag_of_Tokelau.svg/100px-Flag_of_Tokelau.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Niue.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Niue.svg/50px-Flag_of_Niue.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Niue.svg/75px-Flag_of_Niue.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Flag_of_Niue.svg/100px-Flag_of_Niue.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Cook_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td>Maori: <b>7,664</b><br /> Tokelauans: <b>1,207</b><br /> Cook Islanders: <b>545</b><br /> Niueans: <b>569</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chamorro_people" title="Chamorro people">Chamorro</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Guam.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/50px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/75px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Flag_of_Guam.svg/100px-Flag_of_Guam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="738" data-file-height="396" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="550" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>147,947</b><br /> (Guamanian or Chamorro: <b>143,947</b><br /> Saipanese: <b>1,143</b><br /> Northern Mariana Islander: <b>553</b>) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Hawaiians" title="Native Hawaiians">Native Hawaiian</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Hawaii.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/50px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/75px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Flag_of_Hawaii.svg/100px-Flag_of_Hawaii.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>680,442</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Palauan_Americans" title="Palauan Americans">Palauan</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Palau.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Palau.svg/50px-Flag_of_Palau.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Palau.svg/75px-Flag_of_Palau.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Flag_of_Palau.svg/100px-Flag_of_Palau.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>12,202</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesian</a>" (not specified) </td> <td> </td> <td><b>9,092</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Samoan_Americans" title="Samoan Americans">Samoan</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Samoa.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/50px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/75px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Flag_of_Samoa.svg/100px-Flag_of_Samoa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/50px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/75px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg/100px-Flag_of_American_Samoa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>296,997</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tongan_Americans" title="Tongan Americans">Tongan</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tonga.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/50px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/75px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Tonga.svg/100px-Flag_of_Tonga.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>78,871</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tuvalu" title="Tuvalu">Tuvaluan</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg/50px-Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg/75px-Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg/100px-Flag_of_Tuvalu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>399</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kiribati" title="Kiribati">I-Kiribati</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kiribati.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kiribati.svg/50px-Flag_of_Kiribati.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kiribati.svg/75px-Flag_of_Kiribati.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Flag_of_Kiribati.svg/100px-Flag_of_Kiribati.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>831</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea" title="Papua New Guinea">Papua New Guinean</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg/50px-Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="38" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg/75px-Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg/100px-Flag_of_Papua_New_Guinea.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>1,453</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonian</a> (Fr) </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flags_of_New_Caledonia.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flags_of_New_Caledonia.svg/50px-Flags_of_New_Caledonia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Flags_of_New_Caledonia.svg/75px-Flags_of_New_Caledonia.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Solomon_Islands" title="Solomon Islands">Salomonese</a> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg/50px-Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg/75px-Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg/100px-Flag_of_the_Solomon_Islands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> </td> <td><b>220</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"<a href="/wiki/Melanesia" title="Melanesia">Melanesian</a>" (not especified) </td> <td> </td> <td><b>937</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>"Pacific Islander" (not especified) </td> <td> </td> <td><b>261,391</b> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th>Total Pacific Islander American population </th> <th> </th> <th><b>1,586,463</b> </th> <th>100.0% </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Location">Location</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Location"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"> <tbody><tr> <th>State/territory</th> <th>Pacific Islander<br /> Americans alone or in combination<br /> (2010 US census)<sup id="cite_ref-census1_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census1-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Percentage<br /> (Pacific Islander)<br /></th> <th>Pacific Islander Americans<br /> alone or in combination<br /> (2020 US census)<sup id="cite_ref-Asian_Population_2020_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Asian_Population_2020-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>Percentage<br /> (Pacific Islander)<br /><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabama</a></td> <td>7,984</td> <td></td> <td>7,479</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a></td> <td>11,360</td> <td></td> <td>18,668</td> <td>2.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa" title="American Samoa">American Samoa</a></td> <td>52,790<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td></td> <td>46,233<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> <i>(44,090 alone)</i></td> <td>93.0%<br /> <i>(88.7%)</i> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a></td> <td>28,431</td> <td></td> <td>37,212</td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas">Arkansas</a></td> <td>8,597</td> <td></td> <td>17,874</td> <td>0.6% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/California" title="California">California</a></td> <td>320,036</td> <td></td> <td>337,617</td> <td>0.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a></td> <td>16,823</td> <td></td> <td>24,714</td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut">Connecticut</a></td> <td>6,864</td> <td></td> <td>5,971</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a></td> <td>1,423</td> <td></td> <td>1,547</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a></td> <td>1,514</td> <td></td> <td>1,494</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a></td> <td>43,416</td> <td></td> <td>44,454</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a></td> <td>18,587</td> <td></td> <td>19,020</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Guam" title="Guam">Guam</a></td> <td>90,238 <sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>56.6%</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hawaii" title="Hawaii">Hawaii</a></td> <td>358,951</td> <td></td> <td>394,102</td> <td>27.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Idaho" title="Idaho">Idaho</a></td> <td>5,508</td> <td></td> <td>9,293</td> <td>0.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a></td> <td>15,873</td> <td></td> <td>16,842</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a></td> <td>7,392</td> <td></td> <td>12,015</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a></td> <td>4,173</td> <td></td> <td>10,073</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a></td> <td>5,445</td> <td></td> <td>7,890</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a></td> <td>5,698</td> <td></td> <td>8,449</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a></td> <td>5,333</td> <td></td> <td>6,100</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a></td> <td>1,008</td> <td></td> <td>1,619</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a></td> <td>11,553</td> <td></td> <td>11,440</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></td> <td>12,369</td> <td></td> <td>10,436</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a></td> <td>10,010</td> <td></td> <td>11,255</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a></td> <td>6,819</td> <td></td> <td>9,387</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a></td> <td>3,228</td> <td></td> <td>3,235</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a></td> <td>12,136</td> <td></td> <td>17,870</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a></td> <td>1,794</td> <td></td> <td>3,101</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nebraska" title="Nebraska">Nebraska</a></td> <td>3,551</td> <td></td> <td>4,069</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a></td> <td>35,435</td> <td></td> <td>52,532</td> <td>1.7% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Hampshire" title="New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></td> <td>1,236</td> <td></td> <td>1,792</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a></td> <td>15,777</td> <td></td> <td>14,621</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a></td> <td>5,750</td> <td></td> <td>6,012</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a></td> <td>45,801</td> <td></td> <td>40,578</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a></td> <td>17,891</td> <td></td> <td>20,957</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a></td> <td>801</td> <td></td> <td>2,086</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Northern_Mariana_Islands" title="Northern Mariana Islands">Northern Mariana Islands</a></td> <td>24,891 <sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>46.2%</td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a></td> <td>11,380</td> <td></td> <td>15,181</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></td> <td>9,052</td> <td></td> <td>15,026</td> <td>0.4% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Oregon" title="Oregon">Oregon</a></td> <td>26,936</td> <td></td> <td>39,709</td> <td>0.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></td> <td>14,662</td> <td></td> <td>16,532</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></td> <td>370 <sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td></td> <td>4,169</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></td> <td>2,803</td> <td></td> <td>2,331</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a></td> <td>6,988</td> <td></td> <td>8,737</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota" title="South Dakota">South Dakota</a></td> <td>1,040</td> <td></td> <td>1,642</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a></td> <td>9,359</td> <td></td> <td>11,008</td> <td>0.2% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></td> <td>54,801</td> <td></td> <td>77,196</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a></td> <td>37,994</td> <td></td> <td>59,247</td> <td>1.8% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Vermont" title="Vermont">Vermont</a></td> <td>476</td> <td></td> <td>0,725</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">Virgin Islands (US)</a></td> <td>212<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a></td> <td>17,233</td> <td></td> <td>22,226</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a></td> <td>73,213</td> <td></td> <td>114,189</td> <td>1.5% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a></td> <td>1,295</td> <td></td> <td>1,726</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></td> <td>5,558</td> <td></td> <td>7,470</td> <td>0.1% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wyoming" title="Wyoming">Wyoming</a></td> <td>1,137</td> <td></td> <td>1,714</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td> <td>1,332,494</td> <td>0.4%</td> <td>1,586,463</td> <td>0.5% </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Military">Military</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Based on 2003 recruiting data, Pacific Islander Americans were 249% over-represented in the military.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>American Samoans are distinguished among the wider Pacific Islander group for enthusiasm for enlistment. In 2007, a Chicago Tribune reporter covering the island's military service noted, "American Samoa is one of the few places in the nation where military recruiters not only meet their enlistment quotas but soundly exceed them."<sup id="cite_ref-tribune_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tribune-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of March 23, 2009<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, there have been 10 American Samoans who have died in <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq</a>, and 2 who have died in <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Afghanistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pacific Islander Americans are also represented in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">United States Navy SEALs</a>, making up .6% of the enlisted and .1% of the officers.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a> (TTPI) was a United Nations territory administrated by United States since 1944 until 1986/94 (depending on the country), although it did not belong to the US.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Percentage of the state population that identifies itself as Pacific Islanders relative to the state/territory population as a whole — the percentage is of Pacific Islander Americans alone.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pacific_Islander_Americans&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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August 30, 2007.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070825030327/http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/pums/sub/ancestry.html">"1990 Census of Population and Housing Public Use Microdata Sample"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/pums/sub/ancestry.html">the original</a> on August 25, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 31,</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=1990+Census+of+Population+and+Housing+Public+Use+Microdata+Sample&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Ffisher.lib.virginia.edu%2Fcollections%2Fstats%2Fpums%2Fsub%2Fancestry.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Umich-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Umich_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lib.umich.edu/clark-library">"Clark Library - U-M Library"</a>. <i>www.lib.umich.edu</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.lib.umich.edu&rft.atitle=Clark+Library+-+U-M+Library&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.umich.edu%2Fclark-library&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Barkan4-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan4_4-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarkan2013" class="citation book cs1">Barkan, Elliott Robert (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SOvskj0HNt8C&q=Pacific+Islander+and+Pacific+Islander+American.+Google+book.+Matthew+Kester&pg=PT900"><i>Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. Volume 4</i></a>. ABC-Clio. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-220-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-220-3"><bdi>978-1-59884-220-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Immigrants+in+American+History%3A+Arrival%2C+Adaptation%2C+and+Integration.+Volume+4&rft.pub=ABC-Clio&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-59884-220-3&rft.aulast=Barkan&rft.aufirst=Elliott+Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSOvskj0HNt8C%26q%3DPacific%2BIslander%2Band%2BPacific%2BIslander%2BAmerican.%2BGoogle%2Bbook.%2BMatthew%2BKester%26pg%3DPT900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span> Chapter: <i>Pacific Islander and Pacific Islander Americans, 1940-present</i>, written by Matthew Kester.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Encyclopedia1-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Encyclopedia1_5-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrij_V._LalKate_Fortune2000" class="citation book cs1">Brij V. Lal; Kate Fortune (2000). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T5pPpJl8E5wC&q=Samoans+mormons+in+the+United+States&pg=PA116"><i>The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia, Volume 1</i></a>. University of Hawaiʻi Press. pp. 115–116. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8248-2265-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8248-2265-1"><bdi>978-0-8248-2265-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Pacific+Islands%3A+An+Encyclopedia%2C+Volume+1&rft.pages=115-116&rft.pub=University+of+Hawai%CA%BBi+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-8248-2265-1&rft.au=Brij+V.+Lal&rft.au=Kate+Fortune&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DT5pPpJl8E5wC%26q%3DSamoans%2Bmormons%2Bin%2Bthe%2BUnited%2BStates%26pg%3DPA116&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Asian_American_History_and_Culture-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Asian_American_History_and_Culture_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHuping_LingAllan_W._Austin2010" class="citation book cs1">Huping Ling; Allan W. Austin (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0PFnBwAAQBAJ&q=guamanian+migration+to+California+and+Hawaii&pg=PA524"><i>Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia. Volume one-two</i></a>. Routledge. p. 524. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-47645-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-317-47645-0"><bdi>978-1-317-47645-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Asian+American+History+and+Culture%3A+An+Encyclopedia.+Volume+one-two&rft.pages=524&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-1-317-47645-0&rft.au=Huping+Ling&rft.au=Allan+W.+Austin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D0PFnBwAAQBAJ%26q%3Dguamanian%2Bmigration%2Bto%2BCalifornia%2Band%2BHawaii%26pg%3DPA524&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DoI-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-DoI_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.doi.gov/oia/islands/american-samoa">"American Samoa Office of Insular Affairs"</a>. <i>www.doi.gov</i>. 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John Wiley and Sons, Inc. p. 22. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-471-22601-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-471-22601-7"><bdi>978-0-471-22601-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cultivating+Diversity+in+Fundraising&rft.pages=22&rft.pub=John+Wiley+and+Sons%2C+Inc.&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-0-471-22601-7&rft.aulast=Pettey&rft.aufirst=Janice+Gow&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5a6WtHIiEXkC%26q%3DGuamanian%2Bmigration%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bunited%2Bstates%26pg%3DPA22&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Barkan3-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan3_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan3_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan3_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan3_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Barkan3_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarkan2013" class="citation book cs1">Barkan, Elliott Robert (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AP7QCteb0o0C&q=Historical+Samoan+American+migration+in+the+USA&pg=PA1177"><i>Immigrants in American History: Arrival, Adaptation, and Integration. Part 3</i></a>. ABC-Clio. p. 1,177. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-219-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-59884-219-7"><bdi>978-1-59884-219-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Immigrants+in+American+History%3A+Arrival%2C+Adaptation%2C+and+Integration.+Part+3&rft.pages=1%2C177&rft.pub=ABC-Clio&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-59884-219-7&rft.aulast=Barkan&rft.aufirst=Elliott+Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DAP7QCteb0o0C%26q%3DHistorical%2BSamoan%2BAmerican%2Bmigration%2Bin%2Bthe%2BUSA%26pg%3DPA1177&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span> Chapter: <i>Pacific Islander and Pacific Islander Americans, 1940-present</i>, written by Matthew Kester.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MPI-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MPI_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPI_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPI_10-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MPI_10-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCathy_A._SmallDavid_L._Dixon2004" class="citation web cs1">Cathy A. Small; David L. Dixon (February 1, 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/tonga-migration-and-homeland">"Tonga: Migration and the Homeland"</a>. Migration Policy Institute<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Tonga%3A+Migration+and+the+Homeland&rft.pub=Migration+Policy+Institute&rft.date=2004-02-01&rft.au=Cathy+A.+Small&rft.au=David+L.+Dixon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.migrationpolicy.org%2Farticle%2Ftonga-migration-and-homeland&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APacific+Islander+Americans" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Stantom-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Stantom_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Stantom_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStantom1973" class="citation book cs1">Stantom, Max (1973). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.es/&httpsredir=1&article=1017&context=mphs"><i>SAMOAN SAINTS SETTLERS AND SOJOURNERS</i></a>. 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Virgin Islands Americans">Stateside Virgin Islands Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trinidadian_and_Tobagonian_Americans" title="Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans">Trinidadian and Tobagonian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincentian_Americans" title="Vincentian Americans">Vincentian Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Black Hispanic and Latino Americans">Black Hispanic and Latino Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Indians_in_the_United_States" title="Black Indians in the United States">Black Indians</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="African immigration to the United States">African immigrants to the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Africans_in_the_United_States" title="Central Africans in the United States">Central Africans in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cameroonian_Americans" title="Cameroonian Americans">Cameroonian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Congolese_Americans" title="Congolese Americans">Congolese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Equatoguinean_Americans" title="Equatoguinean Americans">Equatoguinean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabonese_Americans" title="Gabonese Americans">Gabonese Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fula_Americans" title="Fula Americans">Fula Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igbo_Americans" title="Igbo Americans">Igbo Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Africans_in_the_United_States" title="East Africans in the United States">East Africans in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eritrean_Americans" title="Eritrean Americans">Eritrean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_Americans" title="Ethiopian Americans">Ethiopian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenyan_Americans" title="Kenyan Americans">Kenyan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_Americans" title="Somali Americans">Somali Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Sudanese_Americans" title="South Sudanese Americans">South Sudanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sudanese_Americans" title="Sudanese Americans">Sudanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanzanian_Americans" title="Tanzanian Americans">Tanzanian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ugandan_Americans" title="Ugandan Americans">Ugandan Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Africans_in_the_United_States" title="Southern Africans in the United States">Southern Africans in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angolan_Americans" title="Angolan Americans">Angolan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malawian_Americans" title="Malawian Americans">Malawian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_Americans" title="South African Americans">South African Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwean_Americans" title="Zimbabwean Americans">Zimbabwean Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Africans_in_the_United_States" title="West Africans in the United States">West Africans in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beninese_Americans" title="Beninese Americans">Beninese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bissau-Guinean_Americans" title="Bissau-Guinean Americans">Bissau-Guinean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cape_Verdean_Americans" title="Cape Verdean Americans">Cape Verdean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gambian_Americans" title="Gambian Americans">Gambian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghanaian_Americans" title="Ghanaian Americans">Ghanaian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guinean_Americans" title="Guinean Americans">Guinean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivorian_Americans" title="Ivorian Americans">Ivorian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberian_Americans" title="Liberian Americans">Liberian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malian_Americans" title="Malian Americans">Malian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Americans" title="Nigerian Americans">Nigerian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Senegalese_Americans" title="Senegalese Americans">Senegalese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sierra_Leonean_Americans" title="Sierra Leonean Americans">Sierra Leonean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Togolese_Americans" title="Togolese Americans">Togolese Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_Americans" title="Yoruba Americans">Yoruba Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_Africans_in_the_United_States" title="North Africans in the United States">North Africans in the United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Berber_Americans" title="Berber Americans">Berber Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_Americans" title="Algerian Americans">Algerian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Americans" title="Libyan Americans">Libyan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moroccan_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Moroccan American">Moroccan American</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunisian_Americans" title="Tunisian Americans">Tunisian Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_Americans" title="Coptic Americans">Coptic Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Americans" title="Egyptian Americans">Egyptian Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans">Asian Hispanic and Latino Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_Asians_in_the_United_States" title="Central Asians in the United States">Central Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Americans" title="Afghan Americans">Afghan Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pashtun_Americans" title="Pashtun Americans">Pashtun Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baloch_Americans" title="Baloch Americans">Baloch Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazakh_Americans" title="Kazakh Americans">Kazakh Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyz_Americans" title="Kyrgyz Americans">Kyrgyz Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tajik_Americans" title="Tajik Americans">Tajik Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkmen_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Turkmen Americans">Turkmen Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uyghur_Americans" title="Uyghur Americans">Uyghur Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uzbek_Americans" title="Uzbek Americans">Uzbek Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_Americans" title="East Asian Americans">East Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Americans" title="Chinese Americans">Chinese Americans</a> <ul><li><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fuzhounese_Americans" title="Fuzhounese Americans">Fuzhounese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakka_Americans" title="Hakka Americans">Hakka Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hoklo_Americans" title="Hoklo Americans">Hoklo Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Americans" title="Hong Kong Americans">Hong Kong Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Americans" title="Japanese Americans">Japanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Americans" title="Korean Americans">Korean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Americans" title="Mongolian Americans">Mongolian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryukyuan_Americans" title="Ryukyuan Americans">Ryukyuan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwanese_Americans" title="Taiwanese Americans">Taiwanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Americans" title="Tibetan Americans">Tibetan Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Asian_Americans" title="South Asian Americans">South Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bangladeshi_Americans" title="Bangladeshi Americans">Bangladeshi Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Americans" title="Bengali Americans">Bengali Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhutanese_Americans" title="Bhutanese Americans">Bhutanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_Americans" title="Indian Americans">Indian Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Americans" title="Bengali Americans">Bengali Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gujarati_Americans" title="Gujarati Americans">Gujarati Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indo-Caribbean_Americans" title="Indo-Caribbean Americans">Indo-Caribbean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Americans" title="Punjabi Americans">Punjabi Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindhi_Americans" title="Sindhi Americans">Sindhi Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Americans" title="Tamil Americans">Tamil Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_Americans" title="Telugu Americans">Telugu Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldivian_Americans" title="Maldivian Americans">Maldivian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nepalese_Americans" title="Nepalese Americans">Nepalese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_Americans" title="Pakistani Americans">Pakistani Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Punjabi_Americans" title="Punjabi Americans">Punjabi Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindhi_Americans" title="Sindhi Americans">Sindhi Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Americans" title="Sri Lankan Americans">Sri Lankan Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_Americans" title="Tamil Americans">Tamil Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asian_Americans" title="Southeast Asian Americans">Southeast Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_Americans" title="Burmese Americans">Burmese Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Karen_Americans" title="Karen Americans">Karen Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_Americans" title="Cambodian Americans">Cambodian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filipino_Americans" title="Filipino Americans">Filipino Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hmong_Americans" title="Hmong Americans">Hmong Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Americans" title="Indonesian Americans">Indonesian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iu_Mien_Americans" title="Iu Mien Americans">Iu Mien Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laotian_Americans" title="Laotian Americans">Laotian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysian_Americans" title="Malaysian Americans">Malaysian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Singaporean_Americans" title="Singaporean Americans">Singaporean Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thai_Americans" title="Thai Americans">Thai Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_Americans" title="Vietnamese Americans">Vietnamese Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Romani_Americans" title="Romani Americans">Romani Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Slovak_Gypsies_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Hungarian Slovak Gypsies in the United States">Hungarian Slovak Gypsies</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Middle_Eastern_Americans" title="Middle Eastern Americans">West Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Americans" title="Arab Americans">Arab Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahraini_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahraini Americans">Bahraini Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirati_Americans" title="Emirati Americans">Emirati Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Americans" title="Iraqi Americans">Iraqi Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_Americans" title="Jordanian Americans">Jordanian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuwaiti_Americans" title="Kuwaiti Americans">Kuwaiti Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Americans" title="Lebanese Americans">Lebanese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Omani_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Omani Americans">Omani Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palestinian_Americans" title="Palestinian Americans">Palestinian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatari_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Qatari Americans">Qatari Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Americans" title="Saudi Americans">Saudi Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Americans" title="Syrian Americans">Syrian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yemeni_Americans" title="Yemeni Americans">Yemeni Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Americans" title="Armenian Americans">Armenian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assyrian_Americans" title="Assyrian Americans">Assyrian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_Americans" title="Azerbaijani Americans">Azerbaijani Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Circassian_Americans" title="Circassian Americans">Circassian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chechen_Americans" title="Chechen Americans">Chechen Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Americans" title="Georgian Americans">Georgian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Americans" title="Iranian Americans">Iranian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">Jewish Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_Americans" title="Israeli Americans">Israeli Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lezgin_Americans" title="Lezgin Americans">Lezgin Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_Americans" title="Kurdish Americans">Kurdish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Americans" title="Turkish Americans">Turkish Americans</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/European_Americans" title="European Americans">Europe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/White_Americans" title="White Americans">White Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Americans" title="Albanian Americans">Albanian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asturian_Americans" title="Asturian Americans">Asturian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Americans" title="Austrian Americans">Austrian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basque_Americans" title="Basque Americans">Basque Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Americans" title="Belarusian Americans">Belarusian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belgian_Americans" title="Belgian Americans">Belgian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bosnian_Americans" title="Bosnian Americans">Bosnian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Americans" title="British Americans">British Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cornish_Americans" title="Cornish Americans">Cornish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_Americans" title="English Americans">English Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manx_Americans" title="Manx Americans">Manx Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Americans" title="Scottish Americans">Scottish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_Americans" title="Welsh Americans">Welsh Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Americans" title="Bulgarian Americans">Bulgarian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_Americans" title="Catalan Americans">Catalan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_Americans" title="Croatian Americans">Croatian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cypriot_Americans" title="Cypriot Americans">Cypriot Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_Americans" title="Czech Americans">Czech Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Americans" title="Dutch Americans">Dutch Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estonian_Americans" title="Estonian Americans">Estonian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_Americans" title="Finnish Americans">Finnish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Americans" title="French Americans">French Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cajuns" title="Cajuns">Cajuns</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galician_Americans" title="Galician Americans">Galician Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Americans" title="German Americans">German Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Americans" title="Greek Americans">Greek Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Americans" title="Hungarian Americans">Hungarian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_Americans" title="Irish Americans">Irish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Americans" title="Italian Americans">Italian Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Italians_in_the_United_States_before_1880" title="Italians in the United States before 1880">before 1880</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Americans" title="Latvian Americans">Latvian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liechtensteiner_Americans" title="Liechtensteiner Americans">Liechtensteiner Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_Americans" title="Lithuanian Americans">Lithuanian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourgish_Americans" title="Luxembourgish Americans">Luxembourgish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_Americans" title="Macedonian Americans">Macedonian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maltese_Americans" title="Maltese Americans">Maltese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldovan_Americans" title="Moldovan Americans">Moldovan Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montenegrin_Americans" title="Montenegrin Americans">Montenegrin Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Americans" title="Polish Americans">Polish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Americans" title="Portuguese Americans">Portuguese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Americans" title="Romanian Americans">Romanian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Americans" title="Russian Americans">Russian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammarinese_Americans" title="Sammarinese Americans">Sammarinese Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordic_and_Scandinavian_Americans" title="Nordic and Scandinavian Americans">Nordic and Scandinavian Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danish_Americans" title="Danish Americans">Danish Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icelandic_Americans" title="Icelandic Americans">Icelandic Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_Americans" title="Norwegian Americans">Norwegian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Americans" title="Swedish Americans">Swedish Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_Americans" title="Serbian Americans">Serbian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Americans" title="Slovak Americans">Slovak Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovenian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Slovenian Americans">Slovenian Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_Americans" title="Spanish Americans">Spanish Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Californios" title="Californios">Californios</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Americans" title="Swiss Americans">Swiss Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Americans" title="Ukrainian Americans">Ukrainian Americans</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_whites" title="Non-Hispanic whites">Non-Hispanic whites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="White Hispanic and Latino Americans">White Hispanic and Latino Americans</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">North America</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native Americans</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abenaki" title="Abenaki">Abenaki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piegan_Blackfeet" title="Piegan Blackfeet">Blackfeet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne">Cheyenne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colville_people" title="Colville people">Colville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cree" title="Cree">Cree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crow_people" title="Crow people">Crow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houma_people" title="Houma people">Houma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cayuga_people" title="Cayuga people">Cayuga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohawk_people" title="Mohawk people">Mohawk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oneida_people" title="Oneida people">Oneida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Onondaga_people" title="Onondaga people">Onondaga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seneca_people" title="Seneca people">Seneca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_people" title="Tuscarora people">Tuscarora</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Lenape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menominee" title="Menominee">Menominee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohave_people" title="Mohave people">Mohave</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_Indians" title="Mission Indians">Mission Indians</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cahuilla" title="Cahuilla">Cahuilla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chemehuevi" title="Chemehuevi">Chemehuevi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chumash_people" title="Chumash people">Chumash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cupe%C3%B1o" title="Cupeño">Cupeño</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kumeyaay" title="Kumeyaay">Diegueño</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esselen_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Esselen people">Esselen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juane%C3%B1o" class="mw-redirect" title="Juaneño">Juaneño</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitanemuk" title="Kitanemuk">Kitanemuk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luise%C3%B1o_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Luiseño people">Luiseño</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miwok" title="Miwok">Miwok</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patwin" title="Patwin">Patwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pomo people">Pomo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salinan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Salinan people">Salinan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serrano_people" title="Serrano people">Serrano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suisun_people" title="Suisun people">Suisunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ohlone_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohlone people">Ohlone</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Awaswas" title="Awaswas">Awaswas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chalon_people" title="Chalon people">Chalon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chochenyo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Chochenyo people">Chochenyo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karkin_people" title="Karkin people">Karkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamyen_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tamyen people">Tamyen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tataviam" title="Tataviam">Tataviam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tongva_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tongva people">Tongva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wappo" title="Wappo">Wappo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wintun" title="Wintun">Wintun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yokuts" title="Yokuts">Yokuts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odawa" title="Odawa">Odawa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paiute" title="Paiute">Paiute</a></li> 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states and territories by population">Largest cities by population</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_median_age" title="List of U.S. states and territories by median age">Median age</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names_by_state_in_the_United_States" title="List of most popular given names by state in the United States">Most popular given names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_counties_by_U.S._state" title="List of the most populous counties by U.S. state">Most populous counties</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_net_migration" title="List of U.S. states and territories by net migration">Net migration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_populated_places_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of populated places in the United States">Populated places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density#States_and_territories" title="List of United States cities by population density">Population density (cities)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_Race_/_Ethnicity" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states and territories by Race / Ethnicity">Race/ethnicity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_religiosity" title="List of U.S. states and territories by religiosity">Religiosity</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irreligion_in_the_United_States#Demographics" title="Irreligion in the United States">Irreligion</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Economy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_number_of_billionaires" title="List of U.S. states by the number of billionaires">Billionaires</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_budgets" title="List of U.S. state budgets">Budgets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_companies_of_the_United_States_by_state" title="List of companies of the United States by state">Companies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_credit_rating" title="List of U.S. states by credit rating">Credit ratings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_employment_rate" title="List of U.S. states by employment rate">Employment rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_exports_and_imports" title="List of U.S. states and territories by exports and imports">Exports and imports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state" title="Federal tax revenue by state">Federal tax revenue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_by_state" title="Federal taxation and spending by state">Federal taxation and spending</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_GDP" class="mw-redirect" title="List of states and territories of the United States by GDP">Gross domestic product</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_economic_growth_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by economic growth rate">Growth rate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP_per_capita" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states and territories by GDP per capita">Per capita</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_income" title="List of U.S. states and territories by income">Income</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Gini_coefficient" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states by Gini coefficient">Inequality</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_home_price" title="List of U.S. states by median home price">Median home prices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_median_wage_and_mean_wage" title="List of U.S. states and territories by median wage and mean wage">Median wages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_number_of_millionaire_households" title="List of U.S. states by the number of millionaire households">Millionaire households</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_US_states_by_minimum_wage" title="List of US states by minimum wage">Minimum wages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_poverty_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate">Poverty rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_research_and_development_spending" title="List of U.S. states by research and development spending">R&D spending</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_States#By_jurisdiction" title="Sales taxes in the United States">Sales taxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_savings_rate" title="List of U.S. states by savings rate">Savings rate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_socioeconomic_factors" title="List of U.S. states by socioeconomic factors">Socioeconomic factors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_sovereign_wealth_funds" title="List of U.S. states by sovereign wealth funds">Sovereign wealth funds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United_States" title="State tax levels in the United States">State income taxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_unemployment_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate">Unemployment rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_affiliation_by_U.S._state" title="Union affiliation by U.S. state">Union affiliation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_vehicles_per_capita" title="List of U.S. states by vehicles per capita">Vehicles per capita</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Environment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_botanical_gardens_and_arboretums_in_the_United_States" title="List of botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States">Botanical gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions" title="List of U.S. states and territories by carbon dioxide emissions">Carbon dioxide emissions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_state_parks_by_U.S._state" title="Lists of state parks by U.S. state">Parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Natural_Landmark#List_of_landmarks" title="National Natural Landmark">National Natural Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Wildlife_Refuges_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Wildlife Refuges of the United States">National Wildlife Refuges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_nature_centers_in_the_United_States" title="List of nature centers in the United States">Nature centers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_electricity_production" title="List of U.S. states by electricity production">Electricity</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_electricity_production_from_renewable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states by electricity production from renewable sources">Renewable</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites" title="List of Superfund sites">Superfund sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_tribal_wilderness_areas" title="List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas">Wilderness areas</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Geography</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area" title="List of U.S. states and territories by area">Area</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_bays_of_the_United_States" title="List of bays of the United States">Bays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_beaches_in_the_United_States" title="List of beaches in the United States">Beaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_coastline" title="List of U.S. states and territories by coastline">Coastline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_elevation" title="List of U.S. states and territories by elevation">Elevation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_U.S._states_and_territories" title="List of extreme points of U.S. states and territories">Extreme points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forest_cover_by_state_and_territory_in_the_United_States" title="Forest cover by state and territory in the United States">Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_geographic_centers_of_the_United_States" title="List of geographic centers of the United States">Geographic centers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_highest_United_States_cities_by_state_or_territory" title="List of highest United States cities by state or territory">Highest cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_islands_of_the_United_States" title="List of islands of the United States">Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lakes_of_the_United_States" title="List of lakes of the United States">Lakes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_mountains_of_the_United_States" title="List of mountains of the United States">Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_volcanoes_in_the_United_States" title="List of volcanoes in the United States">Volcanoes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Government</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agriculture_commissioner" title="Agriculture commissioner">Agriculture commissioners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_attorney_general" title="State attorney general">Attorneys general</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States" title="List of capitals in the United States">Capitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_and_territorial_capitols_in_the_United_States" title="List of state and territorial capitols in the United States">Capitol buildings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_U.S._state_and_territory_governments" title="Comparison of U.S. state and territory governments">Comparison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_congressional_districts" title="List of United States congressional districts">Congressional districts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="List of current members of the United States House of Representatives">Members</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_by_U.S._state_and_territory" title="List of counties by U.S. state and territory">Counties</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_U.S._counties" title="Index of U.S. counties">Alphabetical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_and_county_equivalents" title="List of United States counties and county equivalents">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_courts_of_the_United_States" title="List of courts of the United States">Courts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors" title="List of current United States governors">Governors</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_lieutenant_governors" title="List of current United States lieutenant governors">Lieutenant governors</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures" title="List of United States state legislatures">Legislatures</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_libraries_and_archives" title="List of U.S. state libraries and archives">Libraries and archives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States#Official_languages" title="Languages of the United States">Official languages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states%27_poets_laureate" title="List of U.S. states' poets laureate">Poets laureate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_politics_by_U.S._state_or_territory" title="List of politics by U.S. state or territory">Politics by state or territory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_U.S._states" title="Political party strength in U.S. states">Political party strength</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_auditor" title="State auditor">State auditors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_legislators" title="List of U.S. state legislators">State legislators</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_representatives_(Alabama_to_Missouri)" title="List of U.S. state representatives (Alabama to Missouri)">Alabama–Missouri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_representatives_(Montana_to_Wyoming)" title="List of U.S. state representatives (Montana to Wyoming)">Montana–Wyoming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_senators" title="List of U.S. state senators">State senators</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_state_(U.S._state_government)" title="Secretary of state (U.S. state government)">State secretaries of state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_legislature_speakers" title="List of state legislature speakers">State speakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_chief_justices" title="List of state chief justices">State chief justices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_presidents_pro_tempore" class="mw-redirect" title="List of state presidents pro tempore">State presidents pro tempore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superintendent_(education)#Chief_state_school_officers" title="Superintendent (education)">State superintendents of education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_supreme_court" title="State supreme court">State supreme courts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_treasurer" title="State treasurer">State treasurers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._statewide_elected_officials" title="List of U.S. statewide elected officials">Statewide elected executive officials</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Health</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_changes_in_life_expectancy,_1985%E2%80%932010" title="List of U.S. states by changes in life expectancy, 1985–2010">Changes in life expectancy, 1985–2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_fertility_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by fertility rate">Fertility rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_hospitals_in_the_United_States" title="Lists of hospitals in the United States">Hospitals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index">Human Development Index</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_American_Human_Development_Index" title="List of U.S. states by American Human Development Index">American Human Development Index</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_life_expectancy" title="List of U.S. states and territories by life expectancy">Life expectancy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_infant_mortality_rates" title="List of U.S. states and territories by infant mortality rates">Infant mortality rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#Prevalence_by_state_and_territory" title="Obesity in the United States">Obesity rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_road_deaths" title="List of U.S. states by road deaths">Road deaths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prevalence_of_tobacco_use#United_States" title="Prevalence of tobacco use">Smoking</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union" title="List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union">Date of statehood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_state_and_territory_name_etymologies_of_the_United_States" title="List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States">Name etymologies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_historical_societies_and_museums" title="List of U.S. state historical societies and museums">Historical societies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_museums_in_the_United_States" title="List of museums in the United States">Museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._National_Historic_Landmarks_by_state" title="List of U.S. National Historic Landmarks by state">National Historic Landmarks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings" title="United States National Register of Historic Places listings">National Register of Historic Places</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_partition_proposals" class="mw-redirect" title="List of U.S. state partition proposals">State partitions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic regions of the United States">Historic regions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_the_United_States_by_state#State_table" class="mw-redirect" title="Abortion in the United States by state">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Age_of_consent_in_the_United_States" title="Age of consent in the United States">Age of consent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_United_States" title="List of alcohol laws of the United States">Alcohol</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state" title="List of dry communities by U.S. state">Dry communities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_Alford_plea_usage" title="List of U.S. states by Alford plea usage">Alford plea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Restrictions_on_cell_phone_use_while_driving_in_the_United_States" title="Restrictions on cell phone use while driving in the United States">Cell phone use while driving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_constitution_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="State constitution (United States)">Constitutions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state" title="Gun laws in the United States by state">Firearms</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Firearm death rates in the United States by state">Firearms death rates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun violence in the United States by state">Gun Violence</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_intentional_homicide_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate">Homicide Rate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_and_local_law_enforcement_agencies" title="List of United States state and local law enforcement agencies">Law enforcement agencies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._state" class="mw-redirect" title="Legality of cannabis by U.S. state">Legality of cannabis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Peace_Index" title="United States Peace Index">Peace Index</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_United_States_state_prisons" title="Lists of United States state prisons">Prisons</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_incarceration_and_correctional_supervision_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate">Incarceration rate</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state" title="Same-sex marriage law in the United States by state">Same-sex unions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/U.S._state_constitutional_amendments_banning_same-sex_unions" title="U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions">Former constitutional bans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_law_in_the_United_States_by_state" title="Same-sex marriage law in the United States by state">Marriage law</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seat_belt_laws_in_the_United_States#The_laws_by_state" title="Seat belt laws in the United States">Seat belt laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_constitutional_provisions_allowing_self-representation_in_state_courts" title="List of U.S. state constitutional provisions allowing self-representation in state courts">Self-representation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans_in_the_United_States" title="List of smoking bans in the United States">Smoking bans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States" title="Speed limits in the United States">Speed limits</a> (<a href="/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States_by_jurisdiction" title="Speed limits in the United States by jurisdiction">by jurisdiction</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_statutory_codes" title="List of U.S. state statutory codes">Statutory codes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_violent_crime_rate" title="List of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate">Violent Crime Rate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Miscellaneous</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_territory_abbreviations" title="List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_United_States" title="List of airports in the United States">Airports</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_bus_transit_systems_in_the_United_States" title="List of bus transit systems in the United States">Bus transit systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_casinos_in_the_United_States" title="List of casinos in the United States">Casinos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cemeteries_in_the_United_States" title="List of cemeteries in the United States">Cemeteries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_US_states_and_territories" title="List of demonyms for US states and territories">Demonyms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_territories" title="Flags of the U.S. states and territories">Flags</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_hotels_in_the_United_States" title="List of hotels in the United States">Hotels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state,_district,_and_territorial_insignia" title="List of U.S. state, district, and territorial insignia">Insignia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Armorial_of_the_United_States#States" title="Armorial of the United States">Coats of arms</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_license_plate_designs_and_serial_formats" title="United States license plate designs and serial formats">License plates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_shopping_malls_in_the_United_States" title="List of shopping malls in the United States">Malls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_and_territory_mottos" title="List of U.S. state and territory mottos">Mottos</a></li> <li><a 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