Now that Fantasywriter has shared a point of view on Latino support for Obama, I’d be most interested in an explanation of the Asian-American vote for Obama going from 62% in 2008 to 73% in 2012.
Of the racial groups in the U.S. Asian Americans have: the highest median household income ($66,000 vs $49,800 for the U.S. as a whole), the lowest rate of welfare dependence (2.4% of persons on welfare are Asians vs.15.7% are Latino), the highest rate of educational attainment (61% of Asians have at least a Bachelor’s degree compared to 41% for whites and 22% for blacks), the lowest divorce rate (22% for Asians vs. 40% for whites), the highest marriage rate (59% vs. 51% for all Americans), the lowest unwed mother rate (16% vs. 72% for blacks) and the lowest unemployment rate (4.4% for Asians vs. 4.7% for whites).
And yet Asans were second only to blacks in their support for Obama among racial and ethnic groups.
Please stop bring SO overt about your liberalism. You’ve already demonstrated a hundred times over that you are far left lib; no need to strain yourself making the point again and again and again.
‘While liberals love to pile massive groups into an undifferentiated pile based on race or skin color, such a strategy is racist and ignorant. Much has been made of the Asian-American vote coming out for Obama. But Asian-Americans consist of a variety of groups, many of whom have nothing in common except regional distribution. They are not a race, because any number of non-Asians are also classified as Asian-Americans, including Bangladeshi Muslims.
So what did account for the Asian category vote shift toward Obama? One answer may be that two groups, Chinese and Indians, that Republicans perform badly with, increased as a larger share of the Asian electorate.
Republicans poll very badly with Chinese and Indians in the United States. Chinese and Indians are currently the largest two groups of registered Asian voters in the country. Republicans do better with Korean, Vietnamese and Filipino voters who are the next three largest groups. But this is more than offset by how badly Republicans do with Chinese and Indian voters.
In the last decade, the Chinese population increased by a million. The Indian population increased by over a million. The Filipino population increased by 700,000. The Korean populated by 400,00. The Democrats may not have increased their popularity among Asian voters, as much as the proportion of the Asian vote that Democrats are already popular with increased.’