In the 1980 census, more than 810,000 Americans identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry, surpassing Japanese Americans to become the nation's second largest immigrant minority, behind Mexican Americans.
一九八○年人口普查時，自己填上「中國裔」的，就超過八十一萬人。華人也超越日裔，成為僅次於墨西哥人的第二大移民團體。