User:RayneVanDunem/Mississippi Delta Chinese people

The Mississippi Delta Chinese people are a community of people who are descended from Chinese immigrants who settled in the Mississippi Delta from the 1870's onward. From 1900 to 1930 planters recruited Chinese immigrants as field hands, although the earliest Chinese were recorded in Bolivar County in 1870. Most Chinese immigrants worked to leave the fields, saving money to become merchants in the small rural towns of the Delta. As these have declined, along with other Delta residents ethnic Chinese have moved to cities or other states. Their descendants represent most of the ethnic Asian residents of the Delta recorded in censuses. While many Chinese have left the Delta, their population has increased in the state.