Vietnamese American population

Maggie Q, a Vietnamese-American with half Vietnamese ancestry

According to the 2000 census, there are approximately 1.2 million Vietnamese in the United States. , their number accounts for more than one-third of the total number of overseas Vietnamese. Most of them live in large cities in the western United States, especially California and Texas, with the most concentrated populations in Orange, San Jose, California, and Houston, Texas. Since the vast majority of them left Vietnam after 1975 to escape North Vietnamese rule, they are mostly opposed to Vietnam's current communist government.