In recent years, younger Vietnamese Americans were registering as Democrats. And, in 2016, the precinct along Brookhurst Street voted overwhelmingly (68% to 27%) for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, and a lot of other Vietnamese American neighborhoods followed suit.
Then something happened. Over the next four years, even as Orange County voters in general and Asian Americans nationwide grew more opposed to Trump, the local Vietnamese American community rallied around the outspoken president. And in November, 53% of voters in this Little Saigon neighborhood backed Trump while 47% supported Joe Biden.