Tiger Moms Take Apple’s Hometown as Asians Lead Growth in U.S.

Anjali Kausar spotted just a handful of fellow Indian immigrants in 2004 when she sent her oldest son to a Cupertino Union School District science camp in California’s Silicon Valley. Last February, when she dropped off her youngest son, half the campers came from Indian families.

Asians grew faster than any race in the U.S. from 2000 to 2010, rising to 4.8 percent of the country’s 309 million residents, with Indians outpacing Chinese and all other Asian groups, according to census data. Cupertino, home to technology icon Apple Inc., is at the forefront of that explosion as Indians have surged 199 percent, many of them drawn by the public-education system and high-technology jobs.