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Demographics and the American Prospect

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Pedro L. Gonzalez
Dec 04, 2019
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In the summer of 2018, journalist Vivian Yee amused herself with the thought that Orange Country, California, was once an agricultural, “conservative (think Richard Nixon and the John Birch Society) and white (very, very white),” slice of America. But  “Chinese and Korean immigrants, and Asian-Americans from other states,” she wrote on the eve of the mi…

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