Vietnamese Refugees in Orange County

Over the years, refugees from Syria, Vietnam, Iraq and even Australia came to the United States from all over the world. Unlike refugees, refugees are basically forced to leave their country to evade war, persecution, or natural disasters. Unlike immigrants living in Mexico and Japan, Vietnamese live in the United States within about 30 years. After the Vietnam War ended, the Vietnamese were forced to leave the free country in fear of their lives.

The relationship between Vietnam and the United States is the most important issue for most Vietnamese Americans. As refugees from Communist countries, many people are strongly opposed to Communism. In the 2000 Orange County registration survey, 71% of respondents thought that communism was "top priority" or "very important". Vietnamese Americans have protested that the Vietnamese government, human rights policy, and they sympathize. In 1999, in opposition to the owner of the video store in Westminster, California, he showed pictures of Vietnamese flag and Ho Chi Minh, when 15 thousand people held a night gathering at the shop door. This raises the issue of freedom of speech. Most Vietnamese Americans have not joined the Democratic Party because Republicans are considered sympathetic to Communism, but Republican support has been eroded by the poorest refugees since the 2nd generation.

Orange County has many Republican voters from culturally conservative Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin immigrants groups. The large Vietnamese-American communities of Garden Grove and Westminster are mainly Republicans, and the number of Republicans registered by Vietnamese Americans is 55% to 22% more than those registered as Democrats It is. Before the second Louisiana election in 2008, Van Trang Republican parliamentarians were elected as the first Vietnamese Americans served in the Legislative Assembly and with Houston Hubert. America's tallest America - America Region