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> The Cuban community is the only community of fairly recent immigrants of which I'm aware that doesn't reliably vote for democrats

Vietnamese Americans tend to vote Republican as well, and until the Trump era, so did Filipino Americans: https://asiamattersforamerica.org/articles/key-statistics-on...

> Hispanic votes for republicans may have increased this year, but they are still absolutely nowhere near 50/50.

Sure, but I find it remarkable that they increased vote share AT ALL while running on a fairly explicitly anti-Hispanic immigration platform.

> My understanding of the Epoch Times is that it's [...] not very representative of Asians in general.

But apparently quite influential in some language communities.

I'm not arguing that recent immigrants do not, overall, predominantly vote Democratic. But I think that behavior is not nearly as immutable as this discussion suggests. Many immigrants (a) come to the US in search of economic opportunities and (b) have somewhat more conservative personal values than their US-born peers. So they should be quite amenable to some flavors of Republicanism.



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