Why arenât Asians Republicans?: Charles Murray investigates When it comes to the 2012 Asian-American vote, Mitt Romney got trounced by Barack Obama. This, no doubt, prompted AEIâs Charles Murray to ask: âWhy arenât Asians Republicans?â âAsians are only half as likely to identify themselves as âconservativeâ or âvery conservativeâ as whites,â writes Murray. This, of course, doesnât seem to make sense: Itâs not just that the income, occupations, and marital status of Asians should push them toward the right. Everyday observation of Asians around the world reveal them to be conspicuously entrepreneurial, industrious, family-oriented, and self-reliant. If youâre looking for a natural Republican constituency, Asians should define ânatural.â Kind of blows away the whole 47 percent, âmakers versus takersâ argument â at least, as an explanation for all the GOPâs electoral problems â doesnât it? So whatâs the problem? Murray concludes: Republicans are seen by Asiansâas they are by Latinos, blacks, and some large proportion of whitesâas the party of Bible-thumping, anti-gay, anti-abortion creationists. http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/26/why-arent-asians-republicans-charles-murray-investigates/
More importantly they are seen as bigots. Since most Asians come from Philippines, Japan, China, or Vietnam, they know all about Western bigotry. They are not fooled.
As a group Blacks and Latinos exercise their religion in numbers much greater then Whites. Blacks are much more anti-gay then Whites.
The entire RNC debacle was bigotry. What is nice is the GOP has seen the errors of it's ways, and are going to get rid of the social conservatives. But to point to a specific example, look at Ohio and Florida where they tried to kill early voting, for obvious reasons. Some members of the GOP itself has said as much.
Not really, the Allen West's of the black world might be, but most black folks are live and let live.
But Asians are split 50/50 traditionally between Democrats and Republicans. I remembered reading during Bush's re-election, there was this report that tons of Asians were voting for Bush as he was lowering their taxes. What we can actually conclude from this election though is that the Republican party has an image problem. In any event, Asians would not really want Democrat policies if they were fully implemented. With 3% of the national population, They currently make up 20% of all student populations at the Ivies, in California where California voters banned affirmative action in public hiring, contracting and university admissions, they make up 35-40% of the UC student population.
"Not really"?? What part of these statements are" not really"? As a group Blacks and Latinos exercise their religion in numbers much greater then Whites. Blacks are much more anti-gay then Whites.