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Vietnamese Americans, shaped by a history of fleeing communism as refugees, tend to lean Republican (51%) more than any other Asian American group. [101] [102] However, younger Vietnamese Americans are increasingly shifting toward the Democratic Party. [101]
The Vietnamese coming into Houston in the 2000s and beyond came to find education and jobs. [13]In 2005 Houston had 32,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, making it the second largest Vietnamese American community in the United States of any city after that of San Jose, California. [14]
Hoan Huynh – Illinois State Representative (Democratic), first ever Vietnamese-American elected in Illinois state history Tyler Diep – California State Assemblyman (Republican) Jerome Cochran – Tennessee State Representative (Republican), first Vietnamese-American elected to the Tennessee legislature
The Vietnamese American Heritage Project, created in 2008, supports the Vietnam Archive’s mission to document the war from all perspectives by providing documentation of the post-war social and political history of Vietnamese Americans who immigrated to the United States during and after the Vietnam War. [41]
Vietnamese Americans are the only Asian American group of whom the majority lean Republican, according to the Pew Research Center. Fifty-one percent identify more strongly with the GOP, compared ...
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans (VAYLA-NO) is an area organization for youth. [ 6 ] Vietnamese shrimpers who reside in Plaquemines Parish participate in an annual "Blessing of the Fleet" at the start of brown shrimp season in May.
On April 30, 1975, Thanh Duong scaled the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. Vietnamese American refugees who witnessed fall of Saigon urge U.S. to accept more Afghans Skip ...
Known in the Vietnamese community as “Black April,” it is a day of remembrance when we honor the sacrifices of some 250,000 South Vietnamese and 60,000 American soldiers who gave everything to ...