Washington
Washington state's history of Chinese started from the 1850s with coal mining, railroads, and other laborers luring them from China. By the 1880s, then Washington Territory had as many as 3,000. Today, Seattle's International District was built in the 1950s and is home to many pan-Asian peoples.
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