I wonder if the percentage of Vietnamese in Westminster and Garden Grove is declining, as they move on up in SES, and disperse across the Fruited Plain.
2000
Garden Grove 165k inhabitants, 51k Asians, 36k Vietnamese
Westminster 88k inhabitants, 34k Asians, 27k Vietnamese
Fountain Valley 55k inhabitants, 14k Asians, 7k Vietnamese
Fullerton 126k inhabitants, 20k Asians, 9k Koreans (decidedly not an area of Vietnamese settlement)
2010
Garden Grove 171k inhabitants, 67k Asians, 49k Vietnamese
Westminster 90k inhabitants, 45k Asians, 37k Vietnamese
Fountain Valley 55k inhabitants, 20k Asians, 12k Vietnamese
Fullerton 135k inhabitants, 34k Asians, 16k Koreans (still not many Vietnamese)
Birtherism was probably the even bigger turnoff than "self-deportation" as it is spells out "legal, educated immigrants not welcome to vote Republican" more clearly than anybody could have thought possible in a modern major party. Not that that was the
intended message, of course. Kluckers' granchirren were just distracted by the hue of Obama's skin. But that was never going to make it okay to people who (whatever their own views on the Blacks) don't share the specifically American racist pedigree.
