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Hmong doing well in La Crosse County
A study find La Crosse County’s Hmong, here for roughly for two generations, is fitting in well.
The study was done by the University of Wisconsin-Extension.
“The Asian, in particular the Hmong population, as I understand, is a really good assimilation of a culture into another culture,” Community resource educator Karl Green said. “It’s a really good success story.”
Part of that success can apparently be measured in home ownership.
“The home ownership rates of hmong americans is one of the highest of a culture that comes into the U.S.,” Green said.
Onalaska Hmong population is eight percent. Hmong in the U.S. make up about four or five percent.
Hmong refugees from southeast Asia first began arriving in large numbers to western Wisconsin around 1980.
The largest minority population in La Crosse County is Asian — Hmong representing the biggest part of that group.