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The Hmong population in California is the largest in the United States. Most fled to the United States as refugees in the late 1970s due to their cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency operatives in northern Laos during the Vietnam War, or are a descendant.

As of 2017 it has about 100,000 people of Hmong ancestry.[1]

  1. ^ Fuller, Thomas (June 3, 2017). "California's 'Green Rush' Takes Hmong Back to Their Opium-Growing Roots". The New York Times. Retrieved August 27, 2018.

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