Key facts about Asian American eligible voters in 2024
Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.
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Asian Americans have been the fastest-growing group of eligible voters in the United States over roughly the past two decades and since 2020.
About one-in-four Black households and one-in-seven Hispanic households had no wealth or were in debt in 2021, compared with about one-in-ten U.S. households overall.
Burmese (19%) and Hmong Americans (17%) were among the Asian origin groups with the highest poverty rates in 2022.
The national total in the 2020 census was largely accurate, but the Census Bureau has estimated miscounts for some states and demographic groups.
About six-in-ten Asian American registered voters are Democrats or lean Democratic, but 51% of Vietnamese American voters tilt Republican.
32% of U.S.-born Asian adults have hidden a part of their heritage, compared with 15% of immigrants.
Across 49 focus groups with Asian immigrants, daily challenges related to speaking English emerged as a common theme. Participants also shared frustration, stress and at times sadness in dealing with cultural and language barriers, and described support they received from others.
This project represents our first comprehensive examination of Asian American identity using focus groups. Here’s how and why we did it.
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Most Asian adults in the U.S. have been treated as a foreigner or experienced incidents where people assume they are a “model minority.”
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