To Chinese immigrants, San Francisco is known as Gold Mountain. It?s a reference to the the gold rush of the l800s when Chinese workers flocked to the west coast to work the mines and build the railroads. Migrants from China and Asia are still lured to Gold Mountain. In the last 2 decades, Asians have become the largest ethnic group in San Francisco - over 30% of the city's population. But that population boom hasn't come withtout tension. As part of our series on changing California demographics, Holly Kernan of New California Media reports that when some Asian Americans felt their children were denied a place at the city's best public schools, it sparked the community's political activism.

The historic heart of San Francisco?s Chinese community is still the hilly streets of Chinatown, but these days there?s also another younger heart in the western Sunset neighborhood, centered...
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