Why are Asian Americans Democrats?

[DC Al Fine]

What the coalitions are based on has changed. The GOP was the anti-communist party during the Cold War , which was plenty to keep Koreans, Vietnamese etc, voting GOP (and Cubans for that matter). Now the alignment has changed somewhat and there's not a strong force keeping East Asians in the GOP, especially irreligious ones.

[DC Al Fine]

One other point -- there are presently 11 Asians in Congress and all of them are Democrats.  The GOP does not currently have even one token Asian on their side, as they did in some past years.  While simply putting an Asian face on the same policy isn't going to solve the problem, we shouldn't overlook the power of visual representation.  These Congresscritters are a natural bridge to Asian voters.

If we managed to find Tim Scott & Allan West, there ought to be a Korean businessman somewhere that we could run.