Latino & Asian voting demographics pre-1964

[Vice President Christian Man]

Does anyone have any data about how enfranchised Hispanic/Latinos as well as Asians voted prior to the CRA passing. I know the Blacks that could vote were a solid voting group for the Republican's until 1932 and then gradually became Dems until 1964 when they became solid Dems, but I could not find anything about Latino or Asian voters. I'm guessing Asians were likely Republicans and Latinos leaned Democrat, though it was widely dependent on the region, but does anyone have any data on how they voted?

[TDAS04]

Both groups were very small portions of the US population, especially Asians.  I have no idea how Asians on the mainland voted, but Hawaii could provide some clues on early Asian-American voting habits.  At the time of Civil Rights passage, Hawaii had one Chinese-American Republican Senator, and a Japanese-American Democratic Senator, if that means anything.

As for Hispanics, there weren’t very many outside New Mexico.  Areas of northern NM that had long-established Hispanic presence appear to have voted Republican prior the the Great Depression, and then flipped for the New Deal Democrats.  In Texas, the Tejanos suffered disenfranchisement (though probably not to the extant of African-Americans), and there were hardly any elected to political office at least until the 1950s.  Those who finally won election were Democrats.

[H. Ross Peron]

Kevin Phillips mentions that Chinese Americans in New York City favoured Republicans.

[Agonized-Statism]

The Mexican Revolution refugees in my family tree were apparently pretty strongly for the Democrats, with one Reaganite boomer relative describing his parents as doe-eyed for Kennedy, but that's just anecdotal. There were lots of obstacles to the Latino vote, with the white-presenting being more likely to get to the polls (mine weren't that), but it's pretty safe to say that Latinos as a demographic were enthusiastic New Deal Democrats during the Fifth Party System at least. Would be interested to see the data on this too.

[TML]

Note that early immigrants from countries like China, North Korea, and Vietnam favored Republicans due to those countries being communist/socialist; it was the descendants of these people along with later immigrants with higher education who lean D.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

Note that early immigrants from countries like China, North Korea, and Vietnam favored Republicans due to those countries being communist/socialist; it was the descendants of these people along with later immigrants with higher education who lean D.

The OP was asking about pre-1965 immigration law Asians, which by definition excludes the people you mentioned. Although it’s possible there were some pre-1965 but post-WW2 Korean immigrants.

No idea about the pre-1965 Chinese in general, but Wing Luke was elected to WA Assistant Attorney General in the 50s as a D. I would imagine Gary Locke’s family were Dems as well. Filipino immigrant and labor activist Carlos Bulosan probably would’ve favored the Dems. Japanese on the mainland may have favored the GOP due to anti-FDR backlash, although they may have favored the less nativist Dems before WW2.