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17. There was a great article in Slate about why Asians left the Repubs

The premise was this: until the 70s, Asians in America were split about 50/50, and were primarily of Japanese and Chinese descent. Some of the families had been here more than a hundred years.

In the 70s, what with the US bombing the shit out of Southeast Asia, lots of Asian refugees arrived. They were obviously very anti-communist, so flicked in droves to the Republican Party and especially Reagan.

In the early 90s tbe Cold War is over, there's no reason to worry about the Communists anymore, and things in their home countries have settled down. But the Republicans didn't have anything more to offer than "Liberals Bad."

In 1994, California voters pass, despite great consternation, the anti-immigrant Prop 187. It's mostly aimed at Latinos, but the Asian community keeps hearing "Immigrants Bad! Immigrants bad!"

Combine the with the fact that, despite the myth of being the model minority, there is an incredible amount of poverty in first and second generation Asian families. The Democrats have services and solutions for that; the Republicans have bootstraps.

So in the last twenty years, we've seen Asian voters go from 80%, solidly Republican, to 80%, solidly Democratic.