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Why America's Fastest Growing Demographic Is Abandoning The Republican Party - Fortune
When we examine presidential exit polls, we see that 74% of the Asian-American vote went to the Republican presidential candidate just two decades ago. The Democratic presidential vote share among Asian Americans has steadily increased from 36% in 1992, to 64% in the 2008 election to 73% in 2012. Asian Americans were also one of the rare groups that were more favorable to President Obama in the latter election. This dramatic change in party preference is stunning. No other group has shifted so dramatically in their party identification within such a short time period. Some are calling it the “GOP’s Asian erosion.” Moreover, Asian Americans as a group have a number of attributes that would usually predict an affinity for the Republican Party.
When Joseph Choe, an Asian-American college student, stood up to ask a question about South Korea, Donald Trump cut him off and wondered aloud: “Are you from South Korea?” Choe responded, “I’m not. I was born in Texas, raised in Colorado.” His answer prompted laughter from the audience (they were laughing AT you and not WITH you), and nothing more than a shrug from the GOP presidential candidate.
Media outlets like NPR and the Huffington Post mocked this interaction as a “Where are you from?” moment. A fellow conference attendee who walked by Choe subsequently joked, “You’re gonna have to show him your birth certificate, man!”
American Enterprise Institute’s notes:
“If you’re looking for a natural Republican constituency, Asians should define ‘natural’ … And yet something has happened to define conservatism in the minds of Asians as deeply unattractive.”
The feeling of social exclusion stemming from their ethnic background might be pushing Asian Americans away from the Republican Party.
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The GOP is 90% white. That 10% left over isn't just blacks. It also includes Asian, Native American, Hispanic and anyone else who does not identify as white.
Republicans may win when only 30% of the electorate votes, but they will get slaughtered every four years from now on as long as they are seen as the ignorant racists so many of them are.
When we examine presidential exit polls, we see that 74% of the Asian-American vote went to the Republican presidential candidate just two decades ago. The Democratic presidential vote share among Asian Americans has steadily increased from 36% in 1992, to 64% in the 2008 election to 73% in 2012. Asian Americans were also one of the rare groups that were more favorable to President Obama in the latter election. This dramatic change in party preference is stunning. No other group has shifted so dramatically in their party identification within such a short time period. Some are calling it the “GOP’s Asian erosion.” Moreover, Asian Americans as a group have a number of attributes that would usually predict an affinity for the Republican Party.
When Joseph Choe, an Asian-American college student, stood up to ask a question about South Korea, Donald Trump cut him off and wondered aloud: “Are you from South Korea?” Choe responded, “I’m not. I was born in Texas, raised in Colorado.” His answer prompted laughter from the audience (they were laughing AT you and not WITH you), and nothing more than a shrug from the GOP presidential candidate.
Media outlets like NPR and the Huffington Post mocked this interaction as a “Where are you from?” moment. A fellow conference attendee who walked by Choe subsequently joked, “You’re gonna have to show him your birth certificate, man!”
American Enterprise Institute’s notes:
“If you’re looking for a natural Republican constituency, Asians should define ‘natural’ … And yet something has happened to define conservatism in the minds of Asians as deeply unattractive.”
The feeling of social exclusion stemming from their ethnic background might be pushing Asian Americans away from the Republican Party.
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The GOP is 90% white. That 10% left over isn't just blacks. It also includes Asian, Native American, Hispanic and anyone else who does not identify as white.
Republicans may win when only 30% of the electorate votes, but they will get slaughtered every four years from now on as long as they are seen as the ignorant racists so many of them are.
