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After the 2016 election, I was surprised to read that Asian-Americans voted about 70% for the Dims. Would have guessed they would have been closer to 50/50, or a small percentage in favor of Republicans. - Maybe they will vote more for Republicans in the future.


7 posted on 11/06/2018 9:46:33 AM PST by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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After the 2016 election, I was surprised to read that Asian-Americans voted about 70% for the Dims. Would have guessed they would have been closer to 50/50, or a small percentage in favor of Republicans. - Maybe they will vote more for Republicans in the future.

That is more the younger, suburban Asian-Americans. They go to elite universities and vote the way the graduates of those universities vote.

In the Reagan era Asian-Americans tended to vote Republican. Many of them had been refugees from Communist countries - China and Vietnam. But the younger generation doesn't have the same memories.

Japanese-Americans are the WASPs or Jews of Hawaii - the liberal establishment and mainstay of the Democratic Party. Indian-Americans tend - so far as I've seen - to vote for the party in power.

There is a paradox in assimilation. Traditionally, the more assimilated individuals and groups are, the more they vote Republican. But today, groups and individuals are assimilated to the category of Asian-American, African-American, Latino, Middle Eastern-American (and I suppose European-American) and they vote Democrat out of group identity and loyalty.

30 posted on 11/06/2018 12:51:36 PM PST by x
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