GOP down to one member in Hawaii Senate

[Хahar 🤔]

I think one of the questions of this all, is why the hell is Hawaii so Democratic and liberal. I mean given it's Demographics, geography etc. I figure it would at least be a swing state?

Lots of Asians, and the whites who live there are demographically liberal.

[Dgov]

I think one of the questions of this all, is why the hell is Hawaii so Democratic and liberal. I mean given it's Demographics, geography etc. I figure it would at least be a swing state?

It was a Staunch Republican state (back when Alaska was a Staunch Democratic state), but basically followed the Same path as the rest of the West Coast over the last few decades.

Demographically, Oregon and Washington should be swing states.  However they have considerably more Liberal Whites than the rest of the country, and so are not.

[Nichlemn]

I think one of the questions of this all, is why the hell is Hawaii so Democratic and liberal. I mean given it's Demographics, geography etc. I figure it would at least be a swing state?

It was a Staunch Republican state (back when Alaska was a Staunch Democratic state), but basically followed the Same path as the rest of the West Coast over the last few decades.

Demographically, Oregon and Washington should be swing states.  However they have considerably more Liberal Whites than the rest of the country, and so are not.

No, not really, both started out as swing states (see the 1960 Presidential election in which both states were very close).

[Nichlemn]

I think one of the questions of this all, is why the hell is Hawaii so Democratic and liberal. I mean given it's Demographics, geography etc. I figure it would at least be a swing state?

Lots of Asians, and the whites who live there are demographically liberal.

This begs the questions: why are Asians so Democratic? They didn't use to be (see the 1992 Presidential election in which Bush won a majority of Asians). How much of it is due to changes in the GOP (more anti-immigrant, Southern conservative) and how much of it is due to changes in Asians (new immigrants, new generations that don't remember the Japanese internment)?

[Verily]

I think one of the questions of this all, is why the hell is Hawaii so Democratic and liberal. I mean given it's Demographics, geography etc. I figure it would at least be a swing state?

Lots of Asians, and the whites who live there are demographically liberal.

This begs the questions: why are Asians so Democratic? They didn't use to be (see the 1992 Presidential election in which Bush won a majority of Asians). How much of it is due to changes in the GOP (more anti-immigrant, Southern conservative) and how much of it is due to changes in Asians (new immigrants, new generations that don't remember the Japanese internment)?

1. End of Communism as a serious threat, and also changing generations.
2. Change in the Republican Party to prefer social conservatism.

Japanese internment hasn't had a political influence in many decades; Japanese have been the most Democratic Asian group since at least the 1970s (partially because they were the only Asian group to come to the US at that time who didn't have a relationship to communism).

[Brittain33]

That raises an interesting question. Was internment ever seen as a partisan issue among Asian-Americans in the west after the war?