Indian Americans, like Indians, are a diverse group. Their voting behaviour depends on a range of political and social realities relevant to the state they live in, their profession, when they moved to the US, and increasingly, what they think about Narendra Modi. Indian Americans are typically clubbed with Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the political spectrum, and there are many facets on which there are ways in which their voting patterns overlap¹. 

First, the other major or racial ethnic blocks in the elections tend to be African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. Unlike these three groups, which tend to be economically and socially marginalised and are consequently seen as a vote block for Democrats, Asian Americans have, especially in the last three decades, have been seen through ‘model minority’ tropes wherein they have social values better aligned with Democrats, but in many cases, economic interests which fall on the side of Republican talking points.