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In 2006, 15 Vietnamese Americans were running for elective office in California. [49] In August 2014, Fort Hood Col. Viet Xuan Luong became the first Vietnamese American general in U.S. history. [50] Four Vietnamese Americans have run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives as their party's endorsed candidate.
They consist of cities with at least 10,000 Vietnamese Americans or where Vietnamese Americans constitute a large percentage of the population. The information contained here was based on the 2010 U.S. census. Vietnamese-Americans immigrated to the United States in different waves.
Asian Americans voted Republican and were the only racial group more conservative than whites in the 1990s, according to surveys. [1] By the 2004 election, Democrat John Kerry won 56% of the Asian American vote, with Chinese and Indian Americans tending to support Kerry, and Vietnamese and Filipino Americans tending to support George Bush. [5]
In a neighborhood where many of the residents who answered the door were white, some seemed oblivious to the durable political force that Nguyen had helped shape in the Vietnamese American ...
The Hi-Tek incident, [a] referred to in Vietnamese-language media as the Trần Trường incident (Vietnamese: Vụ Trần Trường or Sự kiện Trần Trường), was a series of protests in 1999 by Vietnamese Americans in Little Saigon, Orange County, California in response to Trần Văn Trường's display of the flag of communist Vietnam and a picture of Ho Chi Minh in the window of ...
Asian Americans voted Republican and were the only racial group more conservative than whites in the 1990s, according to surveys. [58] By the 2004 election , Democrat John Kerry won 56% of the Asian American vote, with Chinese and Indian Americans tending to support Kerry, and Vietnamese and Filipino Americans tending to support George Bush ...
As of the same year, 15% of the Asians in Fort Bend County were of Vietnamese origins, making them the third largest Asian ethnic group in the county. [20] In 1990 there were 31,056 ethnic Vietnamese in Harris County, making up 28.3% of the county's Asians. By 1990 the Vietnamese became the largest Asian ethnic group in the county.
The suggestions above were first developed and prototyped as a workshop for 70 to 80 Vietnamese community members whom The Markup interviewed for our stories on the languages of misinformation.