Democrats hope to turn Texas blue — in part by banking on Asian Americans. - NBCAsianAmerica
That bodes well for other South Asians contesting Texas, too, experts say. The race toward flipping Texas with Asian Americans' playing a huge part is so strong that Houston's 22nd District contest has become one of the most expensive and hotly contested congressional races this season.
Nikore agreed that"it is in the Sun Belt and the Southern states — Arizona, Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Georgia — that the Asian American growth has been immense," he said."It has to do with where the jobs are growing."Sri Preston Kulkarni, 41, is a former diplomat, a polyglot conversant in at least six languages who quit his foreign service job to fight Trump's party.
"South Asian Americans have to harness the power of our electorate, and historically our communities haven't been good at doing that," Joshi said."Demographic power is meaningless until we make sure everyone registers and votes."
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