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Originally Posted by chowhou
From my own experience in first generation Asian immigrant communities, the conservatism runs deep. I don't think it's a conspiracy theory that the large Korean Christian communities and Vietnamese communist refugee communities and Chinese move-new-money-out-of-China communities and Punjabi farmer communities and Hong Kong authoritarian refugee communities and all the Eastern European communities tend towards a certain degree of economic and social conservatism (or at least anti-leftism).
I even know a few recent Hong Kong immigrants that are openly pro-Trump, for no other reason than him being more anti-China than anyone else.
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For privacy reasons I won't share my ethnicity, other than to say I'm West Asian. In my immediate family there are a lot of interracial marriages with various East Asian ethnicities. Both East Asians and West Asian are quite conservative, even if we sometimes vote left. I can say for myself, the only reason I don't always vote blue is that I know their base supporters can be quite racist (based on my own experiences) and that rubs me the wrong way. Otherwise, we prefer the conservative messaging on drugs and crime.
The biggest reason all the East Asian and West Asian people in my family are voting blue this time around is drugs and crime. Drugs by a wide margin are their number one concern. The degree to which our communities are uninterested in this drug debate (i.e. safe supply) cannot be overestimated. The whole "removing the stigma around drugs" makes people in my community
from the left.
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