Why did Dole win the Asian vote?

[Beet]

Most Asians are traditionally conservative. During WWII, the main Asian power, Imperial Japan, was a right-wing power, and in the immediate postwar period, it was conservatives who advocated American friendship with Asia to resist the communist tide. During the 1960s, Asians became the Model Minority- on the spectrum of intelligence, crime rates, work ethic, and so on, they were the opposite of blacks. In the 1970s and 1980s, conservatives in both parties like Richard Nixon and Zbignew Brzezinski took Asian engagement to the next level by trying to pit a reforming China against the Soviet Union. By the 1990s, debates over affirmative action again put Asians on the conservative side. Things did not begin to change until Bill Clinton's second term.

[Beet]

Another problem is that in Asia, the right-wing is often the more reasonable side. I mean, whose politics do you prefer- Chinese far-right winger Liu Xiaobo, or North Korean far-left winger Kim Jong Un? The unassimilated immigrants who come here tend to think the same thing, "oh, American conservatives must be reasonable." It's only their more assimilated children who come to the opposite conclusion, and vote Democratic.