 The New York Times has just said that a lot of Asian voters are now shifting right. However, there's a segment of Asian voters that are shifting right faster than the rest. Oh man, you know the New York Times, Andrew. Anytime they drop something, it gets the people going. Long story short, man, they got new evidence and they've got a new breakdown, Andrew, of what type of Asians are shifting to the right. Because they've obviously said this before in a very general sense, Andrew, but they've got the details now. All right, we're gonna get into a lot of graphics and statistics and reasons why that is. So please hit that like button right now. Check out other episodes of the Hop Pop Boys. We're just trying to be intellectually honest here. Let's go. Silly to serious guys, we'll break it down. Andrew, take a look at this voting map. Wow. Of working class Enclave Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 2018. Deep blue, 2022, Andrew, light red. Wow, that's a big shift. Now, just because that this district is red doesn't mean that the Republican won the entire thing, but they won in this district. Yeah, they voted for a Republican governor, Andrew, and it was primarily due to crime concerns. Wow, God, dope. Sunset Park has some great cheap food, too. Yeah. Look at the Asian American votes in national elections, Andrew, there was a trend, obviously, for four years. The blue bar is getting bigger. As you see more and more, Andrew, the red bar is getting bigger. I'm sure that is probably what? Very concerning to Democrats. Yeah, I mean, based off all the articles that we've covered, obviously, we do know that Asians are shifting a little bit, right? It does not mean that they're mostly right. Most Asians are still voting Democrat right now. However, there's a trend, and I think a lot of Democrats are concerned. Now, one thing that was surprising to me was this fact that the most heavily Democratic groups include Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Arab descent. The least Democratic groups are the Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, Cambodian Americans, and Filipino Americans. Six origin groups make up 85% of all Asian Americans. Andrew, look at this chart. This was just an interesting fact, Andrew. Between Chinese and Indians, that's like literally half the Asian Americans in America. There's a lot of them, man. They come from huge countries. Those are big countries. They have unlimited people. And obviously, it shows on this chart that most Asians live in the West Coast, then the South, which is interesting, then the Northeast, then the Midwest, dead last. And it also shows that we have the highest income disparity out of all groups actually in America. Which brings us to our main point, guys. Which group of Asians is shifting to the right faster? Andrew, it is actually the blue collar in uneducated or less educated Asian Americans. Yeah, though that group, so long story short, the New York Times article breaks Democrats down into fancy Democrats and blue collar Democrats. Now, the Republicans have always had this dynamic on their side. They had the country club Republicans and more of like, I don't want to say hillbilly, but like. Hick or, I guess, you know. Bible Belt. But you know, these Democrats. Yeah, you mean those Republicans. These Republicans. Yeah, so long story short, Andrew, they're saying that the working class, like factory Democrats, that are like pro big government because they don't make a lot of money. They're leaving and going to the Republican Party. Yeah, they're more subject to change. Now, here's some reasons why that the article listed. Number one, Republicans in these areas increase outreach to the Asians. So more in language flyers, more playing up their concerns, more just personal outreach to them. Issues on education impact Asians the most. And imagine you're a blue collar Asian and you value education and you want your kids to have a better shot at coming up. Of course, you're gonna really value that opportunity. Republicans have a super, super, super strong anti-crime campaign. This was probably maybe the largest factor. I think that this is number one out of three. Asians are politically diverse because they're also ethnically diverse. So really it's hard to market to all of them, right? And a lot of, surprising a lot of Asians, I guess, agreed with stronger border security, which kind of goes along with, yeah, I mean, just security, I guess, yeah, just securing the borders. And then basically overall working class people kind of tend to, I guess, suffer from the rise in crime the most. I mean, do you miss that? Yeah, because I think they live in areas where like the crime rate fluctuating or more or less police, it will actually have a big impact. If you live in like a really nice gated country club in the hills, it's not really gonna matter what's happening down the hill. Yeah, no, it's true. I mean, listen, if you live in Irvine, California, Arcadia, California, Diamond Bar, you live in the Upper West Side, you live in these really nice Asian zones. Yeah, the rise, the overall macro rise in crime, it doesn't really affect you that much. Yeah, the article also went on to state that working class Latinos are also shifting, right? Because they tend to have more concerns, like you said, Andrew, about crime and stuff like that. And they're not as much into, I guess, some of the woke identity stuff, right? Yeah, and I think that, you know, I guess the reason is being, listen, if you're blue collar or let's say, you're still in a struggle mode and you're still just trying to survive, I mean, you're not gonna be concerned as much with the identity stuff. You're gonna be more concerned with just safety and education and coming up in opportunities. For sure, I mean, it has to do with priorities, masses of hierarchy and needs, different things like that. Of course, we got to acknowledge, Andrew, there's always been like multiple spots along the political spectrum. You could be a moderate Republican, you don't co-sign the insurrection, you don't co-sign majorly green, you could be a moderate Democrat, you could be a far left Democrat. Andrew, the New York Times said they're losing the moderate Democrat Asians. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Let's get into some of the comments, bro. Somebody said, yeah, man, Asians are fundamentally conservative culturally, but still vote left due to other factors. We are fundamentally conservative. I mean, a lot of people say this and I think if you look at traditional maybe even Confucian values, yeah, I think that there's a lot that also fall in line with conservative values. Not that they're the same or they don't come from the same place, but they do like are similar. It's very difficult in my opinion to place Eastern things on a Western spectrum, but if you had to say one side or the other, probably Confucianism for sure is closer to conservatism. But like, for example, they're really open with like abortion overseas. Like that's not even, they don't even think twice about abortion pro life. Anyway, our pro choice, I'm sorry. Somebody said, it's just like shifting chairs on the Titanic, regardless of which side you choose. They might feel sort of different, like different chairs, but the end results are the same. You're sinking on the Titanic. Somebody said, hey, man, Democrats don't even care about us, even though Asians supported them all throughout the years. What do you think of this one, bro? I mean, this has been a strong sentiment. We talked about it on the channel before. This is how a lot of Asian Democrats feel, yeah. Somebody said, but Republicans have always been racist. Look at Mazury Green, Tucker Carlson, so many of them. It seems like they only are just pro-wider, pro-anglo-sexing. Yeah, I'll tell you this, man. It definitely feels that unless you are an Asian person that is super, super pro-America, super, super pro-right wing, and you're like anti-China. And unless you're that thing, then it seems like that Republicans won't support you either. But, you know, these are all just the extreme sides of things. Somebody said, it was a tough choice, man. I was right down the middle, but ultimately I went Republican because I felt singled out that the liberals said they cared about every single identity in the world except Asian. That's the way to put it, man. That was a slap in the face, guys. Somebody said, I left the Dems, but I can't vote for the Republicans so they're racist because they're so racist. So guess what? I'm just not gonna vote at all. What do you think of this one? This is just opting out. I think if someone comes along on either side that can sway that person, that person's gonna come out and vote again. Whether for a Republican or Democrat, I think there's a way to activate that voter. Somebody said, it's not just Asian Americans that are leaving the Democratic Party. It's because the whole scale of the Democrats shifted so far to the left socially and we stayed the same and we never changed. That's why we're leaving because they left us by going too far left. It's like you were here and then you thought the Democrats was right here, but now they stretched it out here and now they're farther away. Yeah, I mean, like I said, guys, these are the real internet comments with a lot of ups and downs and a lot of supports and retweets and stuff like that. Somebody said, you know, I don't think that Asians like Trump or Palin types, but they always like moderate, classy, corporate Republicans like Mitt Romney. You know, so if they get more of those Mitt Romney type guys, yeah, that'll get the Asians coming back in big numbers. Yeah, trust me, guys. I know a lot of Asian dads. Asian dads like themselves, somebody like a Mitt Romney. Dude, I would say at best, a lot of like Asian dads would like to be like Mitt Romney, like it seems like. Yeah, I mean, they're from that era. Somebody said, both parties are horrible. Let's be honest here. And then they go on to list like four or five negative things about both parties. Yeah, I mean, dude, it's easy to say that, but really at the end of the day, how does that change anything? Somebody said Asians are not a monolith even though people wish they were. So either side could basically just jujitsu us and use us to their benefit because they don't actually care about us. They just want to use us. Somebody said, I'm liberal and I'm staying liberal, but I'm not gonna lie guys, they are making it tough. And somebody said basically this famous quote in Italy, Andrew, where somebody said, at least under Mussolini, the trains ran on time. So basically that's like saying, somebody taking saying they'll take a bad leader if they make infrastructure run on a tighter ship. Well, if things work, they'll take an A whole leader. It's kind of what they're saying. Yeah, and the truth is, I think some of the downside of the policies that the Asian American experience, Asian American communities are experiencing, Andrew, they're a little bit more intense than a late train. Yeah. We're talking about like people potentially just getting killed on the street. Yeah, yeah, for sure, man. So ultimately guys, let's get into takeaways. I'm sure we could get into responses and the nuances of things for like hours and hours, but we gotta get to the end of the video, Andrew. What do you think of the solution? This is just thinking out of the box here, Andrew. What if people voted Republican locally, but then Democrat for like the president? Is that a way to like, you know, I heard a really strategic, smart, successful, rich friend of mine suggests that because basically he's like, yeah, you mix and match it. So that way your kids are safe at school, but then, you know, sell out to corporations or be, you know, start a bunch of wars. I guess if you vote locally Republican though, that will increase the chances that the president is Republican. Right, well, I guess it depends for what positions, right? Yeah, how elections work. It's not just your vote is counted the same, right? So I guess it's interesting. I mean, I wish there was definitely a more like combination mix. I wish that you could have like the main things listed out and then you make the combinations and then somehow they put that in and there, they have the computer that can count all the main combinations and then that's like what that person's supposed to do. Like why can't we just control what people do? Yeah, and you know what another thing is too is like sometimes when you're an elected candidate that tells you all these things, once they get in the office, what they execute IRL is different. Yeah, so why don't, no matter who gets elected, why don't we just re-vote on the things that are the priority? Because listen, we've chosen you as the captain of this ship, but who's gonna give you the map? Someone else gives you the map. You don't come up with the map. We give you the map as the people. I think man, I just hate the pre-packaged options for like political identities that the game is offering right now. So that's just what somebody told me. I don't know, tell me what you guys think in the comment section below. Andrew, the truth is different people who live different lives, Andrew, different day-to-day realities, different pings, different people they see on an everyday basis. You know, we all live in this gigantic country but most people's lives are realistically what made of 20, 30, 40, 50 people. They just value things differently, right? That means different people have different priorities. So the fancy tech Democrats, they might be at a level where everything else is taken care of, so now they're trying to fix identities, right? That may or may not, to be honest, affect the largest portion of the population. The working class Democrats, they're not there yet or maybe they'll never get there and they don't like it. Yeah, it feels like because it's so split up by economic class that it's almost part of the country is almost living in like a developing country and then the other part of the country is living in the most advanced society but, and that's almost how it feels like it's getting split up. I don't even, maybe, you know, we always talk about the race wars and I do think maybe race definitely has a lot to do with it but I guess the economics man, it seems pretty split. Yeah, there was a political expert, consultant expert that said, it looks like every, you know, once in a while this happens, there is a political realignment that is no longer around racial lines but rather around class, education and just day-to-day lifestyle lines. Wow. All right, everybody, we're gonna wrap it up right there. You guys let us know what you think in the comments down below. Asians shifting right for these particular reasons, especially the working class Asians. Working class Asians and working class Latinos are shifting to the right, from the left, the fastest. So you guys let us know if that makes any sense. Like I said, we are not political, you know, we're just really restating just trying to make sense of it intellectually guys. Just being honest here. 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