WaPo: “Ever since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, I’ve been curious about the role Indian American voters could play in November. Would their pride in the vice president’s heritage drive them to the polls?
…Asian Americans are one of the fastest-growing racial groups in Georgia’s electorate, voting in numbers that exceed Biden’s 2020 margin of victory in the state. Nationally, Asian Americans appear to prefer Harris over Donald Trump, and among young progressives of Indian descent in urban centers, enthusiasm is palpable for her candidacy and the possibilities it represents for those who share her cultural background.
But that’s not the whole story. In conversations I struck up with dozens of Indian Americans while staking out Indian shopping malls, beauty salons, cultural centers and grocery stores in the affluent communities that surround Atlanta, I found a divide between enthusiastic descendants of immigrants and those who had grown up abroad — with the latter group being more or less indifferent to Harris’s heritage.”