San Marino Epitomizes New State Immigration Trend

From time to time, San Marino's demographics pop up as a talking point in the media. Such was the case this week when the New York Times used the city to illustrate a statewide shift in immigration trends.

As the Times article points out, immigrants from Latin America once outnumbered other groups; however, in the last 10 years that's changed and "more than twice as many immigrants to the nation's most populous state now come from Asia than Latin America."

San Marino, has already gone through a shift from a once mostly white population to a population whose makeup is 53.5 percent Asian and only 37.1 percent non-Hispanic white, according to the United States Census Bureau.

The city is used along with other San Gabriel Valley areas to illustrate cultural changes that could come with the statewide shift. Some were seen as positives, like the addition of music, food and drinks—boba tea anyone?

Other changes, like a practice labeled "maternity tourism" in which women come to America to give birth so their children can have automatic American citizenship, were viewed as a concern.

We want to know what changes you've noticed in our community? What do you like? Do you have any concerns? Is this even a subject worth talking about or should we not be concerned with race or ethnicity in the day and age?  Please share your thoughts in the comments section.