The social roots of Asian American partisan attitudes

Raychaudhuri, Tanika

doi:10.1080/21565503.2018.1494009

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“…According to the recent reports analyzing the 2017-2019 ACS, around six in ten Asian Americans (57%) were born in another country (Budiman and Ruiz 2021), and immigrants from Asia are more likely than the overall foreign-born population to be naturalized citizens (Hanna and Batalova 2021). As the recent research on Asian American partisanship and vote choice reveals (Kuo et al 2016;Masuoka et al 2019;Raychaudhuri 2018;Zheng 2019), Asian Americans in this study also tend to identify themselves with the Democratic Party (42.45%). However, a substantive percentage of respondents report that they are not affiliated with any political party (18.91%) or do not think in terms of a political party (19.05%), which is also in line with the previous findings (Aoki and Takeda 2008;Lien et al 2004;Wong et al 2011).…”

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confidence: 55%

Asian Americans’ Perception of Intergroup Commonality with Blacks and Latinos: The Roles of Group Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Intergroup Contact

Park

2021

Social Sciences

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This study explores the factors that influence Asian Americans’ perception of interracial commonality with Blacks and Latinos. Using the 2018 Civic Engagement and Political Participation of Asian Americans Survey, this research tests a model of competing theoretical explanations for Asian Americans’ intergroup commonality: group consciousness, group identity, views of discrimination, and intergroup contact. Results from ordered logistic regression analyses suggest that group consciousness, ethnic identity, and intergroup contact via friendship are robust predictors of Asian Americans’ feelings of closeness to Blacks and Latinos. However, Asian Americans’ perceptions of discrimination are unlikely to result in higher levels of the perceived commonality with outgroups. This study provides a valuable addition to the existing literature on interminority relations by identifying opportunities for Asian Americans to join cross-racial alliances. The conclusion of the article points to the important role that community-based organizations can play in bringing specific Asian American ethnic groups into such coalitions and promoting direct interactions between Asian Americans and other racial groups.

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Asian Americans’ Perception of Intergroup Commonality with Blacks and Latinos: The Roles of Group Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Intergroup Contact

Park

2021

Social Sciences

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“…It is unknown if Asian Americans have clear partisan preferences, or if Asian Americans are true moderates or Independents. 4 The same holds true for second-generation Asian Americans, who then do not experience the same parent-child partisan socialization that African Americans and white children experience (Cho et al 2006;Hughes et al 2006;Raychaudhuri 2018). The proclivity towards identifying as moderate also could be a signal that Asian Americans may not respond as strongly to party cues at the ballot box.…”

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Asian American Candidate Preferences: Evidence from California

Leung

2021

Polit Behav

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The diversity of the Asian American population presents challenges for theories of bloc voting, partisan voting, and descriptive representation. What cues (if any) do Asian American voters rely on? How informative are racial and partisan cues to Asian American voters. This article looks at the candidate preferences of Asian American voters in the 2018 election. I look at elections where an Asian American candidate was on the ballot and compare outcomes within district to the gubernatorial race (a race with no minorities on the ballot). I use surname-coded voter registration records and precinct-level vote returns to estimate Asian American candidate preferences as a racial group and by national-origin. I find strong evidence of national-origin preferences (i.e. Vietnamese for a Vietnamese candidate) among Asian American voters. In instances where the national-origin of the candidate and the national-origin of the voter did not align, voters seem to rely on partisan cues. National-origin preferences are sufficient enough that in one instance voters switched parties within the same election to vote for a candidate of the same national-origin. These findings have implications for theories of minority vote choice and challenges the existing literature on the strength of partisan cues (replication data can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/vivienleung/research).

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“…For the most recent presidential election, Ghitza and Robinson (2021) estimate that 67% of AAPIs voted for the Democratic candidate. This preference for the Democratic Party, despite traditionally Republican predispositions, may be due to perceptions of Republicans as ideologically extreme, liberalizing peer-to-peer socialization at school, and a preference for living in liberal urban areas in the United States (Raychaudhuri 2018, 2020). 7…”

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COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

Chan¹,

Kim²,

Leung³

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Extending theories of social exclusion and elite messaging, we argue that Trump’s targeted rhetoric toward Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic pushes the racial group, largely “Independent” or nonpartisan affiliated, to lean more towards the Democratic Party. We support this claim by combining social media (Study 1) and survey data (Study 2) analysis. Tracing 1.4 million tweets, we find that Trump’s rhetoric has popularized racially charged coronavirus-related terms and that exclusionary, anti-Asian attitudes have increased in the United States since the pandemic began. Next, by analyzing repeated cross-sectional weekly surveys of Asian Americans from July 2019 to May 2020 (n=12,907), we find that the group has leaned more towards the Democratic Party since Trump first made inflammatory remarks towards Asian Americans. Whites, Blacks, and Latina/os, on the other hand, exhibited fewer and less consistent changes in Democratic Party-related attitudes. Our findings suggest that experiences with social exclusion that are driven by elite sources further cement Asian Americans as Democrats.

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The social roots of Asian American partisan attitudes

Cited by 36 publications

References 32 publications

Asian Americans’ Perception of Intergroup Commonality with Blacks and Latinos: The Roles of Group Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Intergroup Contact

Asian Americans’ Perception of Intergroup Commonality with Blacks and Latinos: The Roles of Group Consciousness, Ethnic Identity, and Intergroup Contact

Asian American Candidate Preferences: Evidence from California

COVID-19 and Asian Americans: How Elite Messaging and Social Exclusion Shape Partisan Attitudes

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