“And, it seems, moved their older parents in to live with them (in their very nice homes). The Indian people seem more like old world Americans than most Americans have become.”
I’ve found Indians to be very culturally compatible with Americans, from when Americans were Americans.
It's a demographic the GOP needs to capture.
I have too, in fact with most Asian who come here. They would fit in very well in a 1950s America.
[I’ve found Indians to be very culturally compatible with Americans, from when Americans were Americans.]
Unfortunately, they’re not politically compatible with the GOP:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/10/20/why-most-indian-american-hindus-do-not-support-trump/
[According to the 2016 National Asian American Survey, conducted in August and September, only 7 percent voted for Trump in the primaries and only 7 percent report that they are likely to vote for him in the presidential election.
In the 2012 presidential election, according to the 2012 post-election National Asian American Survey, 16 percent of Indian Americans voted for the Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Indian Americans have historically voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party. But the sharp drop in even the small percentage voting for the Republican candidate between 2012 and 2016 suggests that Trump’s rhetoric has cost, rather than won, him votes from Indian Americans.]
What’s kind of surprising is the fact that Chinese Americans are more likely to vote for the GOP than Hindus are:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/obama-asian-americans-voted-republican-gop-wants-bring-them-back-n873401
[Chinese Americans are indeed a voting group to watch since their support for the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, appeared to wane compared to President Barack Obama in 2012.
While Obama got 69 percent of their vote in 2012, Clinton took just 61 percent in 2016, according to the National Asian American Survey.
This is important, Ramakrishnan said, because Chinese Americans make up the largest segment of the Asian-American vote.]
I think the principal difference between Chinese and Indian emigres is that (1) economic motivations for emigration are a smaller factor in China, because Chinese incomes are 4x India’s*, and there’s less of an economic push to move abroad, (2) political and religious persecution is a factor in Chinese emigration that it isn’t in democratic India. As a result, Chinese emigres are more likely to support the political party opposed to China’s ruling party, much as Cuban emigres are generally opposed to Castro. Stateside, that party is the GOP.
Chinese Americans in, of all places, NYC, are also said to be staunchly opposed to racial quotas:
Which is to say, affirmative action. Just 38 percent of Chinese American voters think it’s a good thing, according to AAPI Data, compared to 78 percent of Indian Americans.
That’s playing out in different ways, such as a lawsuit against Harvard, brought by plaintiffs who think the university penalizes Asian American applicants, as well as recent protests against the administration of Mayor Bill De Blasio.
Stanley Ng, an opponent of the administration’s plan to end New York’s test for Specialized High Schools, argued that the test fosters a meritocracy — which is why he likes that Chinese Americans are getting renewed attention from the GOP.
“They’re saying the right things... and they’re saying we should vote Republican,” said Ng, who added that Chinese Americans are in turn “beginning to listen.”]
* This is reflected in car sales - China’s are 10x India’s, despite both countries having roughly the same population. GM’s annual unit sales in China alone are higher than India’s total annual car sales.