Roy, a software developer, found his way to Forsyth from Cobb County in 2015. “I didn’t like what I was seeing on TV and what I was reading in the news,” he said. Senate runoffs in Georgia made him actively work for Democrats. Like Udayarajan, Subjabit Roy said Barack Obama’s 2008 election first caught his attention, but Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and the pair of U.S.
It just shows how great this country is.” “And that it happened in Forsyth County of all places is a huge thing. “I always tell people that it wouldn’t happen in India,” he laughed.
David Perdue’s mispronounced the name of Vice President Kamala Harris - the country’s first Asian-American vice president - at a Trump rally before the election, Udayarajan decided to mobilize even more, this time for Democrats.Īlthough he now sees both parties reaching out to the immigrant community locally, the fact that county Democrats choose an immigrant like him to lead them, he said, was “a big thing.” “That to me was a big, big deviation from what I saw in 2008, between McCain and Trump,” he said. “I still remember telling my father back home in India that hey, this is why American democracy is so great,” he said.ĭonald Trump’s combative 2016 campaign and subsequent election pushed him to both seek American citizenship and become more engaged in his Forsyth community. But the 2008 election caught his attention for the civility between Barack Obama and John McCain. Like many new immigrants at the time, he said he was not politically active in his early years here. Nobody may embody the changing politics of Forsyth better than Kannan Udayarajan, who immigrated from India in 2007, became a citizen in 2017, and is now the chair of the Forsyth Democratic Party. And Donald Trump’s 2016 finish, with 71% of the vote, was 10 points worse than Mitt Romney did in 2012, when he won Forsyth with 81% of the vote. While Joe Biden didn’t flip any Georgia counties from red to blue to win the state in 2020, he did expand Democrats’ share of the vote in Forsyth by five percentage points in 2020 from 2016.
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