It's interesting to look through old (pre-45) Atlas threads/predictions on how Asian Americans voted or would eventually vote.
This seems like the most appropriate thread to necro for my Part 2 to the R-Filastin poster who's fond of
ursine plushies. My inner Leipist (not my inner BIPOC left-lib solidarity hack) feels the need to effortpost
This chart from 2012 clearly states otherwise
- sourceAsAm evangelical Protestant: 28 D-56 R (Non-Hispanic White is 24 D-70 R)
AsAm mainline Protestant: 44 D-37 R (Non-Hispanic White is 44 D-49 R)
AsAm Catholic: 41 D-42 R (Non-Hispanic White is 39 D-53 R)
AsAm unaffiliated: 63 D-21 R (Non-Hispanic White is 62 D-31 R)
As of 2023, I don't have hard numbers, but I strongly suspect that if you adjusted for both religion and education, almost every Asian ethnicity would be more Republican than white Americans.
I don't know where you'd find data demonstrating that Albanian, Bosnian, Turkish, Lebanese, Palestinian, Egyptian, Moroccan, Kurdish, and Iranian American dentists are collectively more D than each of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian Muslim, and (to use a non-Subcontinental example) Filipino Muslim pharmacists but you do you bruh...
The concept of non-Asian Hindus/Buddhists really seems like a demographic oxymoron but idk, maybe there are enough countercultural White Americans marrying Asian Americans who somehow decide to convert to their partner's ancestral religion for the small crosstab of Non-Hispanic White Hindus/Buddhists to be noticeably more D than their Asian counterparts?
I can see an argument for this with atheists given how overwhelmingly D and socially + culturally left-wing White atheists are. (Meanwhile right-of-center AAPI online talking head Razib Khan
is an open atheist). It's also conceivable that younger AAPI voters who drop out of their birth religion and become unaffiliated are more left-leaning than their Non-Hispanic White counterparts, leaving the remaining <insert religion> AAPI subgroup that much more R.
But overall this claim really feels like it's driven by the fallacy of heavily gentrified and majority Non-Hispanic White parts of Titanium D cities in Safe D states
being more one-sidedly D than nearby urban East/Southeast Asian enclaves. I really feel like you're underestimating how comparatively R devoutly Christian college(+) educated White people still are across much of the country.