Salvadoran Americans are residents of the United States of Salvadoran descent. As of 2008 there are roughly 1.6 million Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the fourth largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry.
The majority of Salvadoran Americans reside in the Greater Los Angeles area and the Washington Metropolitan Area: Washington, D.C.; Maryland; and Northern Virginia. There is also a large number in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and ...
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Salvadoran Americans are residents of the United States of Salvadoran descent. As of 2008 there are roughly 1.6 million Salvadoran Americans in the United States, the fourth largest Hispanic community by nation of ancestry.
The majority of Salvadoran Americans reside in the Greater Los Angeles area and the Washington Metropolitan Area: Washington, D.C.; Maryland; and Northern Virginia. There is also a large number in Houston, Austin, Dallas, and in other California regions outside of Los Angeles such as the San Francisco Bay Area and the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area. In addition, there is a significant number of Salvadoran Americans in the New York City area such as Northern New Jersey, Flushing, Queens and Long Island.
The exodus of Salvadorans was a result of both economic and political problems. The largest immigration wave occurred as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s, in which 20%-30% of El Salvador's population emigrated. About 50% percent, or up to 500,000 of...
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