Are Republicans better for US-India ties or Democrats?

On the domestic level in the United States, the South Asian community is dominated by Indian-Americans. Indian-Americans tend to overwhelmingly support Democrats, even though their profile as a high-earning, family-oriented group would make them seem like a natural Republican constituency. According to Sadanand Dhume, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), this may be because most Indian-Americans settle in blue states such as New York and California, which “colors their perspective.” Others have “bought into a toxic culture of victimhood, despite the obvious fact that the overwhelming majority of Indian immigration came after the United States experienced the great civil rights victories of the 1960s.” However, the real explanation seems to be that most Indian-American grievances with the Republican party revolve around their perception of the party as overtly Christian and white, a fact that makes them feel unwelcome in the party. Indian-Americans would prefer a model of religious pluralism. Many Indian-Americans also believe that the party is opposed to immigration and immigrants, including those from India.

truthbetold wrote:Mostly accurate.  One missing fact.
Voting wise Indian Americans are dems. But I doubt if they  make a critical block like Cuban block in Florida.
Donations wise Indian Americans have a larger value to both parties. On the money front, the upper income Indian  Americans are at least evenly split between both parties.

Expect to see India-U.S. ties improve, or at least for there to be more deliverables in the near future because of the favorable political climate in both countries. Republicans are more favorably inclined towards India and their policies are more beneficial towards India’s trade, geopolitical, and defense priorities.

Hellsangel wrote:
So you agree with this?:

Expect to see India-U.S. ties improve, or at least for there to be more deliverables in the near future because of the favorable political climate in both countries. Republicans are more favorably inclined towards India and their policies are more beneficial towards India’s trade, geopolitical, and defense priorities.

confuzzled dude wrote:

Hellsangel wrote:
So you agree with this?:

Expect to see India-U.S. ties improve, or at least for there to be more deliverables in the near future because of the favorable political climate in both countries. Republicans are more favorably inclined towards India and their policies are more beneficial towards India’s trade, geopolitical, and defense priorities.

You mean like funding our neighbor to make freedom fighters who caused mayhem in Kashmir?

Wilson is best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operation which, under the Carter and Reagan administration, supplied military equipment including anti-aircraft weapons such as Stinger antiaircraft missiles and paramilitary officers from their Special Activities Division to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History by George Crile III and the subsequent film Charlie Wilson's War starring Tom Hanks as Wilson.