The Vietnamese vote couldn’t save B-1 Bob Dornan on Orange county, Ca. The Philipinos are too much like Hispanics-hardworking-poor-and open to a gov’t handout. The gays run San Francisco where there are more Chinese then anywhere else. It’s something about Jury duty taken from the voter rolls. You are right about the Chinese-Loral anybody? I works for the Democrats.
Let’ not forget the Japanese. It was the Democrats who put them in internment camps. They will ‘blame the government’ without being specific. They weren’t interned in Hawaii-too many of them but guess who runs the state?.
I’ve lived in Hawaii for over half my life, and have many Filipino friends. One family I am close with all work as maids and dishwashers in the hotels here.
They are simple, decent, and incredibly hard working American citizens who do not like paying taxes and generally support the republican party. I’ve never met finer people than the Filipinos.
However, I have gone to some of their Filipino churches and invariably the minister tells the congregation how to vote, and it is usually for the current power structure which in Hawaii is almost always democrats except for the Lingle years.
Also about 70% of the DOE department of education is Japanese/Chinese, and that vote is solid democrat; again because that is the power structure here if you want a job or promotion. Hard to break away from the plantation.