There are only 9 APA Members of Congress - 7 in the House & 2 in the Senate.
There are only 2 APA Governors - Benjamin Cayetano from Hawaii & Gary Locke from Washington.
The nearly 12 million Asian-Americans in the United States will command a purchasing power of $253 billion in 2001, up from $113 billion in 1990 -- the largest increase of any group, including whites.
The median income of Asian-American households in 1999 nationally was $51,205 compared with $44,366 for white households, according to the U.S Census Bureau.
"About 70 percent of Asian-American households are online, compared to 48 percent of Hispanic households, 45 percent of Caucasian households, and 35 percent of African-American households" - according to a recent report by Insight Research.
The number of Asian Pacific Americans grew 48.3 percent from 6,908,638 to 10,242,998 in the 1990s.
An analysis by Bernd Schwieren, a GOP political consultant in California, shows that minority support for Republicans declined substantially in the state after the passage of Proposition 187. The Asian American vote fell from 46 percent to 39.2 percent, and the black vote from 14.1 percent to 10.6 percent.
Since 1903, there have been 33 Members of Congress of Asian and Pacific Islander descent.
More minority students are completing high school, but they generally lagged behind non-Hispanic white students, 91.8 of whom graduated in 2000. The completion rate was 83.7 percent for black students and 64.1 percent for Hispanics. Asian/Pacific Islanders had the highest rate, 94.6 percent.
Demographic breakdown: Of the 55 department heads at San Francisco City Hall, 58 percent are male (the city's overall population is 51 percent); 69 percent are white (citywide population is 50 percent); 20 percent are African American (citywide population is 8 percent); 12 percent are Asian (citywide population is 31 percent), and 7 percent are Latino (citywide population is 14 percent). - San Francisco Chronicle 11/2001
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