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ArcticStones's avatar

Michigan: "Trump won swing state by 80,618 votes — 50,332 of them came from Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck, which are largely made up of Arab voters who voted for Biden in 2020."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/voters-in-arab-american-strongholds-helped-tip-michigan-in-trumps-favor/

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

Many of them went to the dark side in 2022 to ban pride flags and the like. Whitmer did quite a bit worse there than in 2018.

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Kevin H.'s avatar

I agree, social conservatism played a part too, i don't think it was just spite over Israel/palestine.

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James Trout's avatar

As some of us have been saying for years, Muslim Americans are NOT natural allies of Democrats.

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culturejammer's avatar

Its one of the most conservative mainstream religions with an extreme emphasis on gender roles and structure. This needs to stop being a surprise. We are going to lose more of those voters, as the media fragmentation continues.

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