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Home | AMERICA | India Watches Indian-Origin Candidates in US Elections

India Watches Indian-Origin Candidates in US Elections

November 5, 2012 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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India Watches Indian-Origin Candidates

India closely watching Indian origin candidates in US polls

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6 Indian-Origin Candidates in US have India closely watching this US election Jason Overdorf Six Indian-origin candidates have India closely watching this US election, as India’s diaspora continues to grow in influence in America. According to India’s DNA newspaper, Dr Ami Bera, the Democratic Party candidate

From Wikipedia:

Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are Americans whose ancestry belongs to any of the many ethnic groups of the Republic of India. As the most socio-economically successful ethnic group in the U.S., Indian Americans comprise 3.1 million people, representing around 1% of the U.S. population as of 2013. Indian Americans are the second-largest self-reported single-race Asian ancestry group after Chinese Americans, and the country’s third-largest Asian group alone or in combination with other races after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans, according to 2013 American Community Survey data.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Asia, India, Minority Voting Rights

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