QUINCY — After years of political apathy, more and more local Asian-Americans are planning to vote.
And many say they will be pulling the lever for the candidate they most associate with – a second-generation minority.
“I will vote,” said David Yi Zou, vice president of Quincy Asian Resources. “I vote Obama.”
Statistics shows Asian-Americans, who compose 5 percent of the country’s population, are voting in greater numbers.
Quincy Asian Resources said that in Quincy, 21 percent of the 3,394 eligible Asian-Americans voted in the 2005 city election. Two years later, 26 percent voted...
