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In reply to the discussion: Vietnam moves its dead to make way for Trump golf course, report says [View all]SouthBayDem
(33,378 posts)I hope it was worth it.
As an Asian-American who grew up in an area with many Vietnamese immigrants, I've seen that older Vietnamese (those who came pre-1990s, by my estimate) tend to be more conservative. Hence "party tradition", similar to certain states voting lockstep D or R from ca. 1860s-1960s due to Civil War allegiances (see the presidential election results in "Union" states like Kansas vs. "Confederate" states like Tennessee). Like Cuban-Americans, Vietnamese have seen Republicans as stronger anti-communists.
In contrast, younger (born '80s or later) Vietnamese-Americans are more down-the-middle depending which part of the country; to my recollection Orange County still has a strong Republican Viet-Am machine (exception: Rep. Derek Tran, a Democrat) while where I'm from (the Bay Area) nearly every Asian-American elected official is Democratic.