Chaldean Christians

[mencken]

How do they vote? I am curious if their patterns align with my anecdotal evidence (sample size of one, mind you)

[mencken]

Looks like the answer to my own question is yes:

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[PSOL]

Honestly after Trump slashed Christian refugees a while back I wouldn’t say these voters are going Republican. Wait a couple of years.

[Wisconsin SC Race 2019]

I would imagine they're moving right due to Dems having more sympathy for the people killing their family and friends in their motherland.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

I would imagine they're moving right due to Dems having more sympathy for the people killing their family and friends in their motherland.

In my highly anecdotal experience this is the mindset they are adopting, yes. With that being said, it all probably depends on how much they weigh their Chaldean identity. A person who fully nationalizes/assimilates (I hate using that word but in this context it's appropriate) is less likely to consider this a deciding factor as someone who is less assimilated. As a result, the people you tend to hear voicing opinions on the matter are more likely to be biased towards a Republican lean.

Most of the Chaldeans I have ever spoken with about this live in California though, so it really doesn't matter on a Federal level.

[warm istanbul]

I would imagine they're moving right due to Dems having more sympathy for the people killing their family and friends in their motherland.

In my highly anecdotal experience this is the mindset they are adopting, yes. With that being said, it all probably depends on how much they weigh their Chaldean identity. A person who fully nationalizes/assimilates (I hate using that word but in this context it's appropriate) is less likely to consider this a deciding factor as someone who is less assimilated. As a result, the people you tend to hear voicing opinions on the matter are more likely to be biased towards a Republican lean.

Most of the Chaldeans I have ever spoken with about this live in California though, so it really doesn't matter on a Federal level.

Most Chaldean Christians are very socially conservative, although so are most (older) Muslim Americans when it comes to issues like homosexuality.

I suspect they will start trending away from the GOP as it becomes clear that Trump's war on Middle Easterners is a war on brown people in general, not Muslims in particular.

[Ethelberth]

Only Chaldean Catholic congressperson is ... Democrat.

[Senator Incitatus]

Extremely conservative in my area, though not as conservative as Copts. Leaning Republican.

[Lechasseur]

I can't say for Chaldean Christians but at anyrate most of the Lebanese Christians I know are big GOP supporters, as one  told me word for word: "I love Bush and I love Trump!". I'd have to imagine Assyrians think the same way.

[Indy Texas]

I can't say for Chaldean Christians but at anyrate most of the Lebanese Christians I know are big GOP supporters, as one  told me word for word: "I love Bush and I love Trump!". I'd have to imagine Assyrians think the same way.

Lebanese Christians have a distinct set of reasons for that.

(1) Most Lebanese-American Christians are for all intents and purposes not Lebanese at all anymore, being multiple generations removed from the country and often the product of out-marriage with white people. (Ex. NH Gov. Chris Sununu is Lebanese-American: does anyone question him being anything other than a generic white guy?)

(2) For the more recent immigrants, the dynamics of Lebanese politics over the past 40 years or so lead them to favor the GOP for the same reason Cubans and Vietnamese have tended to: the US supported Christian-dominated political factions in the Lebanese civil war.

For Chaldeans, I could see location mattering. In Michigan, they might be more Republican-leaning due to vanity-of-tiny-differences issues with the Democratic-leaning Arab community. In California, that would probably be less of an issue.