[poll] Are Asian-Americans more liberal or conservative? You tell me.

[insomniel]

Without looking at the image below this cut, please hazard a guess for the polls. You can base it on your family (if you are Asian-American), your friends or Asian acquaintances, or on American history, whatever. But don't base it on current politics in actual Asian countries, that would be a confounding factor.

Poll You are taking this with a grain of salt, right?

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tl;dr reply... I have too much free time

[insomniel]

I agree with your last statement, but here is what wikipedia has to say about it, for whatever that's worth

nothing to do with what you said but

[daffodil_brill]

It's possible for there to be conservative Democrats, just like it's possible for there to be liberal Republicans. Hell, McCain's own daughter supports comprehensive sex ed and gay marriage. (No idea what her stance is on abortion, though, which is a deciding factor in my voting policies.) So perhaps these Democratic Asian politicians are conservative? Idk. It all really does depend on the person.

What I see in a lot of people, especially my parents, is a sort of "binary thinking." You're either Republican/conservative, or Democrat/liberal. And the two terms are married to each other--practically conjoined twins, even. Not once does it ever enter their minds that there are different stratificiations of politics--finance, social, foreign policy--and that people can and often do have different views on each. Mom's a die-hard Republican conservative, and Dad's an Independent conservative who doesn't think euthanasia in certain cases is a bad thing. Me? I'm an independent who is far left socially, center right moderate

Re: nothing to do with what you said but

[insomniel]

I haven't read up on the platforms of these Asian representatives - I know what Vietnamese people think, but not Japanese or Filipino or Hawaiians. I imagine they would be conservative financially, but they were only able to get power as Democrats because white people have a strangehold on the Republican positions. That's my guess

stumbled

[jade_mushroom]

Heyas! I went to your journal and found this old entry and it reminded of my POL 429 Race in Politics class. I actually wrote a paper about this, comparing liberal/conservativeness versus party voting. The papers I used found that Asians tend to be more conservative, with Chinese being the most conservative and Japanese being the most liberal. In addition, it found that Chinese tended to be heavily candidate dependent, as compared to liberal/conservative or party liners. [I paid attention to Chinese since I'm one too]

I also explored Blacks and Latinos voting habits due to historical treatments by the parties. Blacks as a whole tend to be much more conservative than all the other races [esp on social issues, with higher numbers of ppl believing in death penalty, anti-ssmarriage, abortion regulations], but tend to vote Democrat. Compare Latinos, who tend to be very liberal [pro-bilingual schools, greater social welfare programs], but vote Republican. Cubans had the highest discrepancy on the whole 'liberal but vote republican

Re: stumbled

[insomniel]

Thanks for your input, I find that really interesting, and very much true in my experience. I live in Texas, so I'm sure that plays a part in how people vote, if they vote, but so far, it sounds like a very accurate reflection of minority in politics. I sometimes wonder how strange American politics is that such a large portion of the population votes the opposite of what they personally believe.