re: #236 wrenchwench

You know we have secret ballots, right?

As for your other reason, let me shorten it: Republicans are racist, and Asian voters are observant.

Residentially segregated minorities cannot make a secret of their group voting patterns. As to the other, believe what you like. But look at what happens in California to Asians who apply for admission to the state university system. The rules are tweaked, and re-tweaked, to put as much weight as possible on criteria that favor whites over Asians. Or everybody else over Asians. Republicans don’t have clean hands in this pattern of abuse, but neither do Democrats, and in California, Democrats rule. Ward Connerly opposed that sort of thumbs-to-scale stuff. I guess that makes him a white racist Republican bigot.

Asian voters are pretty quiet about this abuse. I won’t call it cowardice, because to my mind, caution and prudence are very different from cowardice. But I do think that they are sensibly cautious on this topic.