Why do Chinese women like California so much?

[Raja]

Repatriate, Momopi,

Why do Chinese who emigrate to America mostly settle in California? Why not Texas or Florida? Why is California so popular with Chinese people?

Why did a lot of polish people settle in Chicago? Arabs in Dearborn Michigan? Why did a lot of Italians settle in NJ and Jews in NY? Why did a lot of Irish go to Boston?

The answer is simple, community. There's safety, money, and comfort amongst your own in a strange new world. Plus Chinese were heavily discriminated against in the 19th century. Read about "sundown towns" where blacks were lynched automatically in certainly cities. These rules applied to Chinese too in some towns. There were entire small communities of Chinese immigrants in the midwest that were lynched and burned out in the mid 19th century.

San Francisco and later Los Angeles were obvious choices because they were on the coast and that's where asian immigrants first land. Making your way inland back then in the U.S. was a risk that was met with a lot of hostility and violence. It's still very difficult for a lone asian person to make it somewhere in a predominately "white" city in the midwest or "white/black" city in the south.

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I can't speak about San Francisco but in Los Angeles the ultimate goal is to get to the foothills of the San Gabriel Valley where they have displaced the original white residents, a stop in downtown's Chinatown is just temporary. Just as Persians goal is to get to Beverly Hills. Follow the money