Why is Orange County Still Republican?

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Well, OC does have a very large Vietnamese community, and they tend to trend Republican, largely because of their hawkish anti-Communism rhetoric, often to an extreme degree that detracts from civic discourse (such as the shopowner who put a Ho Chi Minh picture in his window and getting death threats). In San Jose, near where I live, there was a big row over the naming of a business district - whether to call it Little Saigon. The young Vietnamese American city council member who tried to come to a compromise and call it the Saigon Business District got a lot of grief for it from hardliners who wanted it to be called Little Saigon and was the subject of a heated recall campaign that she barely beat back..

Funny how many Pho restaurants there are now, featuring a dish that originated in the North.

[dantheman420]

Originally Posted by silverkris

Well, OC does have a very large Vietnamese community...

A very large Vietnamese community is an understatement, the fact is OC has the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

[BacktoBlue]

Originally Posted by dantheman420

A very large Vietnamese community is an understatement, the fact is OC has the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam.

interesting, I did not know that.

[bhcompy]

Originally Posted by BacktoBlue

interesting, I did not know that.

Same thing with Little Phnom Penh(Cambodia Town) in Long Beach

[reddesertfox]

Originally Posted by tom lennox 70

i guess you could also point out that the democrats have lost a lot of blue collar voters with their social liberalism and high taxes. Why did obama do so poorly in traditionally democratic areas like ohio, michigan, and pennsylvania? He won these states but a lot of blue collar americans did not vote for him and rather voted republican this time. There is a difference between a blue collar person who is not rich but earned everything they had, vs. A ghetto person on welfare or an illegal immigrant who doesn't work or works in the shadows and benefits much from welfare and other social programs. Here in baltimore, the only groups who still support obama are ghetto acorn types (who voted for him and still vote for him for racial reasons) of we have very large numbers of, liberal yuppies elites, northern transplants from ny area, and the thankfully few illegal aliens we have. The average blue collar or middle class person here hates obama. Unfortunately its different in dc and ny where middle class voters are more liberal.

I'm not from california and don't know why its become so liberal since the 1950s and the 80s and richard nixon and ronald reagan. Now in southern states like virginia and north carolina, and even here in maryland the liberal shift is attributed to people from more liberal areas who move in and impose their values and culture on us. The only possible explanation i can think of in california is illegal immigrants and la raza/aztlan types, people like antonio villaraigosa for example, a racist traitor who still believes california rightfully belong to mexico...or that principal who sents kids home for wearing american flags on the cinco de mayo. Of course hollywood is liberal but thats such a small number of celebrities who are never really taken seriously anyway.

Is the electoral system in california gerrymandered to give more voting power to the coastal cities vs. Inland areas like the central valley and the mojave region? They do it here in maryland, to dilute the votes of conservative rural and suburban/exurban areas with urban districts with large numbers of liberal voters. I wouldn't be surprised if people in barstow and needles pay for a lot of los angeles or san francisco's public transit and freeway upgrades....just my gut feeling hearing stories about everywhere else in america.

your gut feeling is felt by 200 million people,but most of us have zero courage.i want us to take it back,yesterday.

[Billy Barue]

It became so Liberal/Dem as a result of the insane wave of immigration from Mexico. They didn't have the right to vote right away but more and more now have kids who reached voter age beginning in late 80's.