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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t seen a breakdown in how Asian Americans voted in CA regarding the repeal of the anti-affirmative action measure.[/quote]

https://www.businessinsider.com/big-asian-american-generation-gap-on-california-affirmative-action-question-2020-10

Generation gap -- older and/or more recent immigrants don't have contextual knowledge of the impact of school funding in CA (Prop 13).  More recent Asian immigrants see things in black and white, and bring their home cultural experience here.  Asian Americans who grew up or were born here have a different perspective.

I was practically born in the US, and saw firsthand how Prop 13 impacted public school funding in CA (I'm a product of LAUSD).  While I don't support affirmative action per se, I do support providing more support for under privileged families.

Short answer: Most CA, including Asian Americans, don't want to over turn Prop 209, but they do support providing better support and access to URM (which is what I support, as well).

https://aapidata.com/blog/2020-prop16-affaction/

The US immigration rules have always favored white Europeans -- first with quotas, then "family connections" for those already here.  Many of those European countries that had large emigres were formerly sh1thole countries, but as those countries have gotten wealthier, less and less of them wanted to immigrate here. Many Asian Americans came to the US via family connections (my family included).  So, now Rs want to change it to purely merit based in hopes of still limiting poor brown/black people from coming here.  Coupled with their desire to reduce work visas like HIB for the highly skilled which benefits Asians the most, Rs still want to limit immigration to only wealthy/white people.

Trump and Rs desire to limit family migration would impact Asians:

[quote]Under the RAISE Act, among the immigrant-sending countries that currently make up the top ten, those that would see the sharpest absolute drops in immigrant admissions are Mexico, India, China, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines[/quote]
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