A Republican picked up the seat of scandal-plagued Democratic U.S. Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana in an election delayed by Hurricane Gustav. The victor, who fled South Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, is the first Vietnamese-American elected to Congress. Perhaps now the Vietnamese-American community will begin to support conservative, Republican candidates in even greater numbers.
Louisiana has led the way for the Republican Party in recent years, with the GOP having won the office of governor (also won by an Asian-American, Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, who is of Indian ethnicity) and now picking up a Republican congressional seat -- one of the few states trending conservative.
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