Why did so many recent Chinese immigrants to America come from Fujian?

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One of the big trends in the past 30-40 years of Chinese immigration to America is the huge influx of Fuzhounese immigrants to the United States, to the point that most Chinatowns in the US Northeast have become majority Fuzhounese, Mandarin speaking rather than their Cantonese speaking, Guangdong roots from past immigrant waves

Why specifically did Fuzhou people immigrate to the US in such large numbers, vs other groups of Chinese people? Fuzhou is not a particularly impoverished part of China, nor did Fuzhou have the same kinds of pre-existing ties to US Chinese-American communities that Guangdong and Hong Kong did

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