TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing patterns of Asian-American partisanship
T2 - Accounting for the politicization of the U.S.’s fastest growing minority
AU - Zhou, Kayee
AU - Patterson, Dennis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the Southwestern Social Science Association
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - Asian Americans are the fastest growing and most diverse minority in the United States, but they have become more alike in terms of their partisan preferences and increasing politicization. Evidence for these changes can be found in two National Surveys of Asian Americans, the first of which was completed in 2008 and showed that Asian Americans were mostly nonpartisans but also that those who were partisans tended to support the Democratic Party. The second survey, completed in 2016, however, indicated that there was an increase in the proportion of democratic identifiers and, also, a significant decline in the proportion of nonpartisans with a concomitant rise in the number of purposive Independents. These shifts suggest that there has been a distinct politicization of Asian Americans, and our purpose in this article is to identify and calibrate the factors that account for these partisan shifts.
AB - Asian Americans are the fastest growing and most diverse minority in the United States, but they have become more alike in terms of their partisan preferences and increasing politicization. Evidence for these changes can be found in two National Surveys of Asian Americans, the first of which was completed in 2008 and showed that Asian Americans were mostly nonpartisans but also that those who were partisans tended to support the Democratic Party. The second survey, completed in 2016, however, indicated that there was an increase in the proportion of democratic identifiers and, also, a significant decline in the proportion of nonpartisans with a concomitant rise in the number of purposive Independents. These shifts suggest that there has been a distinct politicization of Asian Americans, and our purpose in this article is to identify and calibrate the factors that account for these partisan shifts.
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U2 - 10.1111/ssqu.13050
DO - 10.1111/ssqu.13050
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113172310
SN - 0038-4941
VL - 102
SP - 1428
EP - 1438
JO - Social Science Quarterly
JF - Social Science Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -