Like most articles that pretend to analyze why Dims receive more support from specific minorities than Republicans, this one also leaves out what I think is the most important reason: How long individual immigrants and families have been in the US.
These ‘studies’ or polls never tell us how new citizens are voting, and how minority voters from multi-generation, citizen families are voting. I think we’d see some real differences in the voting choices of well established and recent arrival minority voters of all ethnicities.
Of course, I doubt most news agencies want to report that the Dims are winning big among new citizens. And for Asian-Americans, the fact that so many live in uber-liberal California and NY is probably also a factor, even among more established Asian-Americans.
I believe how long specific minority voters’ families have been in the US, and how established they are financially,
is the most important determining factor in how they vote.
And also, the number of legal immigrants has increased from a few hundred thousand to more than a million annually in past 25 or so years, not to mention illegal aliens who eventually became citizens.
We are importing Dim voters and the Dims well know it while the Repbublican elite are in long term denial. Republicans had won the national political debate in the ‘80s, but the importation of Dim voters has changed that, particularly since a large increase in legal immigration under GHWB.
“And for Asian-Americans, the fact that so many live in uber-liberal California and NY is probably also a factor, even among more established Asian-Americans.”
Any time you see a group that is given a % for a national number and try to apply it to politics, it usually isn’t as useful as a break down of the group by state, which is how we decide national politics. For instance, if there is a state where the pubs win the asian vote by 70% and a state where dems win the asian vote by 70%, a national number doesn’t let us see that and try to figure out why that might be. It will only get more useless as less and less states are polled for national elections and the extrapolation is pushed even farther.
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