07-12-2017 06:22 via deseretnews.com

Census data pinpoints diversity among Utah's Pacific Islanders

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's longtime Pacific Islander community remains mostly Polynesian, but new census data show that others from a constellation of Pacific nations also call the Beehive State home.
"We're such a small group, and yet there's so much diversity within that group," said Melsihna Folau, who has watched as scores of families from her native Marshall Islands have moved to Utah and grown their families here.
Figures released late Wednesday from the U.S. Census Bureau shed light on
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