[quote=AN][quote=FlyerInHi][quote=AN][quote=FlyerInHi]Huh? I was answering the notion that Asians are natural Republicans. I provided data to show that in 2008, they were not, except for Vietnamese Americans. Maybe Asians are Republicans when they live in non predominantly Asian areas, but there is no data to prove that.
On the democratic side, Asians are being won over by Sanders according to several reports by John Yang of PBS which I watch everyday. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/can-bernie-sanders-pull-off-upset-win-over-hillary-clinton-in-california/%5B/quote%5DYou tried to draw a line between social economic vs party affiliation. That line doesn’t really exist. You’re also assuming all Asians are the same, so it must be their social-economic status that’s determining their party affiliation and also explain why certain group are anti-communism vs another. To phrase it another way… “You guys all look the same”.
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We are talking demographics here. People are lumped into groups for that purpose.
Read the wapo article. “Natural Republicans” implies higher social economic status. But that’s not happening with Asian Americans. As they have become more educated and richer, they have shifted to democrats. The article addresses that point.
Btw, another group that should be natural republicans are Jews. But they are not because of education and academia.[/quote]Could it possibly be that Republican have been taken over by bible thumpers and most Asians are not Christians? Could it be the reason why Vietnamese-American are more anti-communism is because those who are here feel that they lost their country to communism while other Asians did not? Point is, you can’t paint all Asian with the same brush. There are a lot of nuances that you seem to not understand. We all are not the same.[/quote]
The Bible thumpers aren’t the worst imho, because usually they are contained in their own geographical location and if the GOP puts an ultra conservative Bible thumping candidate, that would never work, and they know that. Trump is this slippery slope in that while he isn’t a Bible thumper, he’s just flat out nuts and mentally unstable. I mean, he’s a lot like Donald Sterling in his outbursts. it would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that he’d have the finger on the nuclear button.
