I've actually met and worked with some Karen people, processing immigration paperwork and teaching English. They fit the "socially conservative Democrats who'd be more open to being wooed by the GOP if the party weren't so nativist" archetype to a T.
ETA: Also, they're socially conservative relative to a different society than the "Heartland" mainstream, which does make a difference given how heavily Republican messaging is geared towards that (increasingly perceived rather than actual) mainstream. These are people who eat fish soup for their birthdays rather than cake. They'd respond a lot better to conservative messaging on abortion or drugs or no-fault divorce if it weren't accompanied by quite so much red meat about Mount Rushmore and hamburgers and Santa.
I mean yeah, indisputably, and a lot of their American-born (or at least American-raised) kids do just that. Those of said kids who are of voting age tend to be even more immovably Democratic (or anti-Republican) than their parents, of course, for somewhat more "mainstream" reasons.
