by Chris Bodenner
Two years after electing Bobby Jindal, the country's first Indian-American governor, Louisiana elects Joe Cao, the country's first Vietnamese-American congressman. In a heavily Democratic, black district that encompasses nearly all of New Orleans, Cao upset Rep. Bill Jefferson (D), the 9-term congressman currently under indictment for bribery.
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