`Home is here`: Northeast Wisconsin`s surge in diversity forged by opportunity, grit and inclusion

February 5, 2022 - Long Vue remembers eggs being splattered over his parents’ car after he and his family arrived in Kaukauna in 1980. He recalls the vitriolic shouts from white residents telling them to go back to their homeland.

There was no homeland to return to for Hmong refugees. Vue`s family fled Laos after his father and uncle were active in protecting communication towers used to direct U.S. planes dropping bombs on North Vietnam during the Vietnam War...