ABSTRACT
Hawaii, undoubtedly, must be considered the best state for Asian Americans in exercising their political power. California, because of its large Asian American population and the scarcity of Asian American officeholders, must be considered the worst. The increasingly larger Southeast Asian community now residing in the United States, especially Vietnamese Americans, is a particularly interesting minority group to begin tracking politically. Vietnamese Americans tend to support and vote more Republican than do other Asian Americans. Asian Americans have integrated more cohesively into communities than have other minorities; thus it becomes almost impossible to arrange political boundaries to create "predominately" Asian American electoral districts. Vietnamese Americans, along with Laotian Americans and Khmer Americans, have tended to gather in certain areas of the US Undoubtedly it is in these areas where their first political stirrings will be felt. Asian Americans constitute the fastest growing minority in the United States.
