What comes to mind when you think about Orange County? Probably, images of lascivious housewives and blonde surfers. And certainly, at least if you know your political history, crazed right-wing activists, riding around with anti-UN slogans on their bumpers in this county that served as a crucial birthplace of modern movement conservatism in the 1950s.
Yet today, Orange County—or the OC, as locals call it—is becoming a very different place. Today close to half the population of this three-million person region south of Los Angeles are minorities, primarily Latino and Asian, and the county’s future belongs largely to them.
