Asian Indians now fastest growing American ethnic group

Axios - Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. — and Americans of Indian descent have become the biggest single group within that, Axios' Niala Boodhoo writes from new census data. The Indian American population was relatively small until the 1960s, when a change in immigration policy helped lead to a migration boom of Indian tech workers and their families. By the numbers: The number of Americans who consider their racial origin as solely Asian Indian grew 55% to nearly 4.4 million people from 2010 to 2020. When factoring in people who consider themselves multiracial, the most populous Asian identification among Americans is still Chinese (excepting Taiwanese): 5.2 million people. But if you look at people who identify as belonging to just one racial group — Asian — there are more Indian people than Chinese in the U.S.