Socializing Democrats: Examining Asian American vote choice with evidence from a national survey

Raychaudhuri, Tanika

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102114

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“…We used several independent variables in this study as predictors of group consciousness, including a set of socio‐structural characteristics, immigration and discrimination‐related factors, and political affiliation and participation factors (Lien et al., 2003; Masuoka, 2006; Raychaudhuri, 2020; Uhlaner et al., 1989). Socio‐structural variables included gender, age (measured in years), income, educational attainment, and employment status.…”

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Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate

Nicholson

Mei

2022

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Identifying factors linked to the development of group consciousness is important toward bettering our understanding of group formation processes among marginalized ethnoracial groups. This study examines predictors of group consciousness among Asians and Asian Americans in the United States, focusing on numerous dimensions of this concept, including linked fate, panethnic group identification, and four specific sources of perceived group commonality and interests: (1) cultural, (2) economic, (3) political, and (4) racial. We use data from a national survey to examine socio‐structural, political, discrimination, and immigration correlates associated with separate dimensions of Asian group consciousness. We found that perceiving interpersonal discrimination increased the importance of being Asian; heightened the odds of feeling linked fate with other Asian people; and enhanced the odds of identification as “Asian American.” Republicans and Independents were less likely to perceive different elements of Asian group consciousness compared to Democrats. Educational attainment, income, gender, employment status, ethnicity, and English‐speaking comfortability had varying effects across certain measures of Asian group consciousness. For Asians and Asian Americans, interpersonal discrimination and certain socio‐structural, political, and immigration factors may be especially meaningful toward the development of linked fate, shared group interests and commonalities, and panethnic identification, all of which are key toward activating group consciousness.

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Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate

Nicholson

Mei

2022

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“…At the same time, the emergence of COVID-19 meant that America’s children were spending unusually large amounts of time with one socializing agent: their parents. Across the nation, schools, day cares, and summer camps closed as the pandemic raged, decreasing the care-taking of children by individuals other than parents, and cutting off social interactions between young people and their peers—another important source of social learning (Jennings and Niemi 1974; Pietryka et al 2018; Settle, Bond, and Levitt 2011; Raychaudhuri 2020). Others have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic allowed BLM protests in the summer of 2020 to reach their unprecedented scale by reducing work, travel, and social obligations (Arora 2020); it too may have meant that parents were children’s primary source in interpreting the racial politics of the moment.…”

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Black Lives, White Kids: White Parenting Practices Following Black-Led Protests

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Engelhardt²,

Israel-Trummel³

2022

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Summer 2020 saw widespread protests under the banner Black Lives Matter. Coupled with the global pandemic that kept America’s children in the predominant care of their parents, we argue that the latter half of 2020 offers a unique moment to consider whites’ race-focused parenting practices. We use Google Trends data and posts on public parenting Facebook pages to show that the remarkable levels of protest activity in summer 2020 served as a focusing event that not only directed Americans’ attention to racial concepts but connected those concepts to parenting. Using a national survey of non-Hispanic white parents with white school-age children, we show that most white parents spoke with their children about race during this period and nearly three-quarters took actions to increase racial diversity in their children’s environment or introduce them to racial politics. But the data also show parenting practices to be rife with uncertainty and deep partisan, gender, and socioeconomic divisions. Drawing upon our findings, we call for a renewed focus on political socialization that considers how parenting choices are shaped by political events—including Black Lives Matter—and the possible long-term consequences of racial parenting practices on politics.

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“…The systematic sorting along racial lines of whites into the Republican Party and voters of color into the Democratic Party that has increased over the second half of the twentieth century is one explanation for Asian American voters’ increased support of Democratic candidates over time (Frymer, 1999 ; Hajnal & Lee, 2011 ; Junn & Masuoka, 2020 ). Other research has shown that factors such as feelings of social exclusion, peer socialization, and intergroup solidarity with other minority groups increase support for the Democratic Party among Asian Americans (Kuo, Malhotra and Mo 2017 ; Chan, Kim and Leung, 2021 ; Raychaudhuri, 2018 ; Raychaudhuri, 2020 ).…”

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The Asian American Vote in 2020: Indicators of Turnout and Vote Choice

2022

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What were the indicators of voter turnout and presidential vote choice among Asian Americans in 2020? We argue that 2020 was a unique year in which race was salient for Asian Americans due to the rise of anti-Asian attitudes attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the opportunity to elect a vice presidential candidate of Asian descent. Because of this, racial considerations played a unique role that informed Asian American political participation and attitudes in this election. Using data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, we identify the individual-level factors associated with turnout and presidential vote choice among Asian Americans. We find that stronger perceptions of racial discrimination were related to a higher likelihood of turnout and voting in support of the Democratic Party, especially among Asian immigrants relative to the native-born. This study offers new insight for when we can expect racial considerations to inform the politics of Asian Americans, who are the fastest growing racial group in the United States and therefore an increasingly important bloc of the electorate. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11109-022-09844-9.

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Socializing Democrats: Examining Asian American vote choice with evidence from a national survey

Cited by 14 publications

References 27 publications

Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate

Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate

Black Lives, White Kids: White Parenting Practices Following Black-Led Protests

The Asian American Vote in 2020: Indicators of Turnout and Vote Choice

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