IMO the successful Asian-American demographic is inclined to follow whatever also motivates the successful Jewish vote:
1) They believe in their collective intellectual superiority, which also almost by definition means they believe in the relative intellectual inferiority of other groups.
2) Given that, they don’t think all groups can succeed on a level playing field.
3) Therefore, they think the only way for racially and ethnically based resentment not to endanger their own relatively greater success is to buy off the less fortunate groups with government-provided and liberally-justified benefits.
4) Fortunately for them, the costs of this can be spread across the entire tax-paying populace, though they as a successful minority are prime beneficiaries.
The first three of the four have been straight out detailed to me by successful Jews. I think it is easy for Asians to think the same way, even if not quite fully consciously.
Lurker,
I have always wondered why Jews vote democrat all the time and I think I found the answer in your post. Great post!