Battle for House Control Runs Through California's Orange County
- Korean immigrant faces Latino lottery winner for Congress
- California Republican bulwark faces changing demographics
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A fierce battle over a handful of congressional seats in the Southern California bastion of Republicanism could determine both the GOP’s future in the state and the outcome of the national contest for control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Orange County, a region of 3.1 million people just south of Los Angeles, has long been the ideological center of California conservatism. But it’s been undergoing some of the same demographic shifts that have realigned the politics of other regions of the country.