Actually NYC and NJ has higher concentration of Indians in the US. You knowing few Indians in little Seattle means squat. I AM an Indian. I was raised in both India and US. I speak the language and practice the religion. I lived among Indians most of my life. There's a VAST difference between knowing a few Indians in Seattle and being an Indian. I know and understand the Indian psyche in ways you never will. So don't even go there.
As for the Pew polls, of all the Asian ethnicity which one is the darkest skin plus non Christian? If a brown skinned non-Christian Indian was to run on a Republican ticket, what do you think would be his chances of winning votes among conservatives? Let's be honest here.
Also a few years ago the same Pew polls also reported that Bush was the most popular in India compared to any other country in the world. Bush must be a Hard Left socialist to be that popular among Indians no?
As for the rest of my post, I didn't see you refuting anything, so I rest my case.
I'll say it again - you have closed your mind to rational discussion.
Thanks for admitting you are Indian.
I had that impression from your first post.
I was afraid to ask because I thought you would claim I was being racist.
I live in Bellevue, WA.
10% of our population is Indian, almost all of them software engineers and their families.
That's roughly 12,000 Indians in 20 square miles.
The town next to us, Redmond, has a slightly lower percentage and number of Indians.
According to the Seattle News, this is the second largest concentration of Indian professionals in America.
I will dig out a link for that story if you demand it.
You claim that you understand the Indian psyche.
That is very depressing news.
Here is the political conception I now have of Indian-Americans...
Before leaving India, most of you were free enterprise capitalists who supported limited government, limited taxation, and individual responsibility.
After arriving in America, most of you encountered White Republican Conservative Christians, a species of man even more repulsive than Pakistani Muslims.
That experience was so horrifying most of you decided to vote for the political party that rejects capitalism, seeks unlimited government, seeks unlimited taxation, and rejects individualism.
Ironically, Indian-Americans decided to support the exact same political party that is overwhelmingly supported by Muslim-Americans!
Yes, now I get it, now I understand.
Are you aware that Bobby Jindal, a brown skinned Indian Republican, is Governor of the state of Louisiana?
Apparently Jindal converted to Christianity, but I had to look that up, since I had no idea what his religion was.
Are you aware that Jindal was actively considered for the Vice-Presidential nomination by Romney?
Are you aware that every Black Republican Congressman has been elected from a majority white District?
Are you aware that no Black Democrat Congressman has EVER been elected from a majority white District?
The only Pew poll I know about in India was the one asking if Indians “had confidence” in George Bush.
I have no idea what that means, or what India's opinion on that question means.
I will guess that India liked George Bush because he evicted al Qaeda and the Taliban from Afghanistan, and then he bombed extremist Muslims in northern Pakistan.
ravager, you think and talk like a Democrat.
The Republican Party does not “woo” anyone.
We have a fairly well defined set of political principles.
If you embrace those principles, we welcome you with open arms.
If you reject those principles, if you demand that we change our principles, then you need to choose another Party.
You are obsessed with race and religion and imaginary insults.
You think in terms of “groups” and not in terms of individuals.
There is nothing that I - or any other Republican - could say to you that would bring you to our side.