Are Indian Americans Ready to Go GOP?

Indian-Americans may be just the right demographic to help the conservative coalition broaden its base.

The Cross Culturalist blog, which “seeks to dispel the notion that all conservatives must be uncultured boors,” has linked to and recommended my Nikki Haley post.

Like the FrumForum, the Cross Culturalist is “dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.”

Indeed, writes the Cross Culturalist, “since Americans are becoming more educated and more multicultural, the conservative movement ought to build its future on those demographics. It turns out,” he says, “that Indian Americans represent both of these categories.” That is, Indian Americans are better educated and more multicultural than most Americans.

More than two-thirds of Indian Americans over the age of 25, for instance, are college graduates; and more than a third have graduate degrees.

Indian Americans also have the highest median household income ($83,820) of any ethnic group in the United States and the lowest poverty rate (less than six percent). And less than one percent of Indian Americans reportedly receive public assistance.

Their religious diversity, moreover, is extraordinary, and includes at least nine major faith traditions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and the Bahá'í Faith

These and other compelling facts about Indian Americans have been published by Dino Teppara, Chairman of the Indian-American Conservative Council (IACC). IACC’s site is worth checking out, as is the Cross Culturalist.

John Guardiano blogs at www.ResoluteCon.Com, and you can follow him on Twitter: @JohnRGuardiano.

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