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How a top House race became a fight over communism, immigration, and Asian American identity

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GOP Rep. Michelle Steel is running for re-election in California 's 45th Congressional District .

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up 39 percent of the district’s voting-age residents.

The district is one of the few few majority-minority congressional districts represented by a Republican .

Orange County , California , has slowly shifted toward the political center.

In 2018 , Democrats won a clean sweep of all seven congressional seats in the county.

But there’s no reason to think these changes are permanent.

The political divides within the Vietnamese American community partly reflect several distinct groups of immigrants.

Both candidates have leaned heavily on their families’ immigration experiences.

Some voters are growing frustrated with the increasingly bitter identity politics.

“A lot of Vietnamese people are really tired of it because it makes the community seem monolithic,” says Hao Phan .

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