California asians voted 79% for Obama. NY didn’t poll for asians that I can find. The Virginia vote was 3% asians, with 5% of the asian population. It looks to be around 68% for the dems, 11 points less than CA. Texas has around 5% of the asian population, but didn’t do any national exit polling at all that I can find. It would be interesting to know what the asian vote was in solidly republican states, Obama probably still won but by less than the 73% national number, and of course they have low populations in most of them. Unfortunately, very few southern states had exit polling done for asians, or any exit polling at all.
Freegards
Yep, with Obama getting 79% of the Asian-American vote in California where 29.5% of them live, that definitely would pull the average up for any states where the Asian vote for Dims might have been less overwhelming.
With the exception of black voters, other groups probably tend to reflect the politics in the state where they live to some extent. And also some are probably favorite son voters as Reagan and W did some better among Hispanics, two popular governors from states with large Hispanic populations.
But I still believe that how long a given minority individual or family has been in the US would prove to be the biggest factor in how they vote. And huge numbers of Asians have become new citizens since Reagan, GHWB and Dole who won the Asian vote with just over 50%.