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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I might be oblivious because I'm caught in the middle I think. I'm Asian! So where do Asian-American fall in this paradigm? I don't believe the issues you mentioned voter suppression, imprisonment, poverty, police brutality, racism really affect Asian-Americans as much as the other groups. So what would be the reason for that. Are we pretty much white? I don't think I heard Asian-Americans mentioned once in this election.
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With respect to the election related stuff I think it's probably mostly because
a) Asian-Americans make up a relatively small portion of the population. Like 1/10 Latinos. So focusing on voter suppression of specifically Asian Americans wouldn't be a very effective move (other than general suppression of minorities)
b) Asian-Americans are very much focused in big cities, which are very often strongly Democratic, so again they pretty much know how the vote is going to go so no reason to get a lot of attention.
Which incidentally the Asian-American National Election Eve Poll concluded that 75% of Asian Americans voted for Clinton, while only 19% voted for Donald Trump.
So in terms of being a block, it'd be interesting to see if Asian Americans voted differently than the general population for the counties they live in. If they did, by definition they're a block.