WESTMINSTER, California – President Joe Biden’s disco-era opposition to resettling Vietnamese refugees in the United States is ancient political history to most voters, if they’ve heard about it at all. But not for a small yet politically potent group in Southern California’s Little Saigon.
It’s living history for immigrants from Vietnam after the war, and their children and grandchildren, who have long played a central role politically in Orange County, the former Republican haven that is now highly competitive between the two parties. The community has trended strongly Republican, a result of fierce anti-communist sentiment among the initial refugees who settled in the northern Orange County cities of Westminster and Garden Grove and the surrounding areas.
Those older political allegiances, though, will be tested in the campaign for the inland western Orange County 45th Congressional District, represented by Rep. Michelle
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