Politico: “The Korean community built here in Duluth is unlike anywhere else in the U.S. — even New York City or Los Angeles. It is a place created solely by Koreans for Koreans, an empire of small businesses, where Korean comes before English on any menu you’ll receive. Although it’s only been around for about 30 years, making it far younger than most Korean American communities in the country, the arrival of this particular community has brought more culture, more workers and more investment to Georgia. And luckily for Democrats, they’ve also brought more blue votes for the state.
That might be changing, however, as many here are now reconsidering their support for the Democratic Party.
Asian Americans have become a political force as their numbers multiply, and that phenomenon has never been more evident than here in Gwinnett County — a once-conservative stronghold that now votes blue with the help of a massive influx of Korean immigrants. From 2010 to 2020, the number of Korean Americans in Georgia nearly doubled. During that period, Gwinnett voted for the Democratic presidential candidate for the first time since 1980 — first in 2016, then again in 2020.
But that support for Democrats has since faltered, unraveled by an uncertain economy, inflation and high cost of living.”