The New York Times looks at a voting group that few in the media even know where in the Southern ‘Red’ state that just gave a majority of its vote to Democrat Joe Biden….
But there is a caution….
Like some Hispanics….
They may have voted for Joe Biden…
But they are middle of the road-lean right people politically just like a good amount of other Democrats across the country of all colors, sex, and ages…
The Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban affected some of her friends. The child separation policy reminded her of living apart from her parents for three years during her own move to the United States. Then, this summer, the discovery that she was pregnant made it final: On Election Day, she marched into the Amazing Grace Lutheran Church near her house and voted for the first time in her life. She chose Joseph R. Biden Jr.
“I want it to be a better country for him to grow up in,” said Ms. Javed, who is 24 and is having a boy.
Ms. Javed is part of a small but powerful new force in Georgia politics: Asian-American voters. She lives in Gwinnett County, Georgia’s second-most populous county and the one with the largest Asian-American population. Mr. Biden, who narrowly defeated President Trump in Georgia, won Gwinnett County by 18 percentage points, a substantial increase over Hillary Clinton’s performance four years ago and only the second time the county went blue since the 1970s.
The county is also the heart of the only tightly contested House seat in the entire country that Democrats flipped this year — Georgia’s Seventh Congressional District. A survey of Asian-American early voters in that district found that 41 percent reported voting for the first time, said Taeku Lee, a political science professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped conduct it.
The emergence in Georgia of Asian-American voters is a potential bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on demographic changes to bring political wins across the country. Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing segment of eligible voters out of the major racial and ethnic groups in the country, according to the Pew Research Center; their numbers, nationally and in Gwinnett County, more than doubled between 2000 and 2020….
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…interviews with Asian-Americans in Gwinnett County showed that their political preferences are fluid. While many voted for Mr. Biden, they are hardly a done deal for the Democratic Party. A large portion are socially conservative, often observant Christians and owners of small businesses….
image…Credit…Nicole Craine for The New York Times
Do you consider the Republican Party “middle of the road lean right?”
I consider them Hard Right,James…
Hard Hard Right!
We know how u feel Jack….
Even if some of us do NOT agree with ya
Ok what do you consider the Republican Party?