In “Breaking Down Barriers,” which details best support the central idea that the people of Texas felt that Vietnamese American refugees were taking their jobs?
A. Some in the area still cling to racist attitudes. Nguyen says he receives an occasional piece of hate mail. Interracial dating can lead to fistfights in waterfront bars. And some residents actively opposed erecting the celebratory billboard.
B. Thousands of Vietnamese shrimpers had already begun new lives in the bays of south Texas. When they began pulling around-the-clock shifts, the locals felt their livelihoods were threatened.
C. Thousands of Vietnamese refugees moved to the gulf coast of Texas in the 1970s, many drawn by the opportunity to make a living doing what they once did in Vietnam: shrimping.
D. It was the 1980s, and back then tensions were so high in the small south Texas coastal community that white shrimpers and their Vietnamese competitors sometimes carried rifles into the bay and took potshots at one another from their boats.
select all that apply