Indian Americans Stir Blue Wave in Deep Red Texas. 72% for Biden, 22% for tRump

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Indian Americans Stir Blue Wave in Deep Red Texas
Trump’s touted his rallies with India’s leader, but the Indian American community is leaning left—and nowhere like in Texas.

It would have been nearly unthinkable to see Texas in the toss-up column just four years ago. But less than a week out from Election Day, pollsters see President Donald Trump and his rival Joe Biden in a dead heat, and the Biden campaign’s hopes are riding on a growing community of 160,000 Indian American voters in the Lone Star State to help turn the tide.

“Texas might be turning purple,” said Devesh Kapur, the director of Asia programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “You see in that area there are a lot of Asian Americans, not just Indian Americans but other Asian Americans. That’s the group that will make or break it.”

Indeed, there are few other immigrant groups that have done more to remake the U.S. electorate. Around two-thirds of Indian Americans came to the United States in the past 20 years—a higher rate than any immigrant community other than Mexican Americans. The Indian American community is by no means a monolith, but polls show a majority are leaning blue.

Despite Trump touting close ties with India—hosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in front of 50,000 fans in a Houston football stadium last year—polls show that Indian Americans are turning decisively to the left, alienated by the Republican Party’s divisive rhetoric toward immigrants and minority groups. According to a recent YouGov poll in partnership with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Pennsylvania, 72 percent of registered Indian American voters plan to support Biden, compared with just 22 percent for Trump.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/28/2020-election-indian-americans-blue-wave-texas/

[Hekate]

1. Imagine that

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2. Earlier this year the Indian Prime Minister

inappropriately participated in a partisan meeting with Trump. In some ways Modi is a lot like Trump.

Here is an interesting article that appeared in the Washington Post talking about the problem with the caste system with Indian immigrants in the US. It made me think about an interesting conversation that I had with an Indian engineer at my work (we have a number of them). He discussed how there are problems with caste, and I asked them how they know (for racism in the US, African features are pretty apparent). Well the WP story describes how higher caste Indians do figure out those from the lower caste.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/27/indian-caste-bias-silicon-valley/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

“They don’t bring up caste, but they can easily identify us,” Kaila says, rattling off all of the ways he can be outed as potentially being Dalit, including the fact that he has darker skin.

The legacy of discrimination from the Indian caste system is rarely discussed as a factor in Silicon Valley’s persistent diversity problems. Decades of tech industry labor practices, such as recruiting candidates from a small cohort of top schools or relying on the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers, have shaped the racial demographics of its technical workforce. Despite that fact, Dalit engineers and advocates say that tech companies don’t understand caste bias and have not explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.

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3. There's literally an Indian American on the Democratic ticket

I mean...

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4. South Asians are the fastest growing demographic group

In the N. Dallas burbs...

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5. Sri Kulkarni is campaigning in 27 different languages

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7. and 20 of those languages are Indian languages ......

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6. Trump reminds people of the Corruption in Indian govt and politics

the longer Trump stayed in office the more the US would keep turning into the corrupt system that is in India.

The whole shit where politicians use things like religion, race, caste , etc to spread hate towards other groups all while profiting themselves .

How it's all about politicians favoring those closest to them regardless of qualifications and whoever can bribe them.

There is a difference when people immigrate to other countries without these problems (or at least not on the same level) .

And then there is the hostility of Republicans towards science and just education in general .

And the racism , pro white nationalism of the Republicans.

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8. I look forward to it

I distinctly remember election night 2016 watching Pennsylvania and Michigan being called for Trump, and the sinking feeling I had in my gut. I wish that experience on every goddam voter when Texas or Florida goes blue on November 3.

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9. NC has A LOT of Indian Americans as well...

especially around RTP - Cary, Morrisville, Raleigh. A LOT. I hope they help deliver to the state to Biden/Harris!