... voters, and don’t grasp the bigger picture.

Some are simply not informed enough, and can’t figure out the bigger picture.

Some just don’t care about the bigger picture.

Some have been so misinformed that they see a different bigger picture.

I also think that the number of people of color who vote republican is overblown at times.

The right wing loves their wedge issues.

to make a mark in the much larger pond of POCs in the Democratic party so they throw in with the repugs to see what they can get out of it by being"different", allowing themselves to be used as tokens for a quid pro quo.

Others are just uninformed, low-info voters, some simply want to be seen as "different" than those regular black people, and some are just stupid.

As far as Muslims they may vote Democratic despite the Islamaphobia (Bill Maher for example). Muslims I follow on social media tend to be very progressive of foreign policy I imagine because of the Iraq war & other blunders.

to these other groups and were rewarded by Asian-American and Jewish-American support. I remember George W. Bush trying to get Muslim-Americans to align with the Republican Party before September 11th, 2001.

Of course the Far Right balked. The Republicans’ turn towards outright bigotry started with the propaganda organs and the Wen Ho Lee case in the 1990’s. Then came the anti-Muslim hysteria after 9/11, followed by the Right’s balking at Dubya’s attempt to legalize undocumented aliens.

Fast forward to Trump’s presidential campaign. Bigotry has again become acceptable in Republican circles.

What I’m saying is that times have changed, and a lot of “other” Republicans failed to notice it.

A lot of conservatives who identify Democrat in unity with their "tribe" share many gut reactions and predilections with conservative whites. They have to hold their nose all those times that voting for themselves also includes supporting liberal principles and goals they may genuinely despise.

The biggest difference between the two personality types, btw, is attitude toward equality. Liberals believe in it, conservatives less. Hierarchies of power and privilege tend to make sense for conservatives; they believe that in healthy societies they are natural and inevitable. The more conservative stronger the disagreements and less in common with liberals, of course.

Skin color, religion, cultures and continents of origin strongly affect but don't erase these fundamental wired-in orientations of all humans.

We saw that in that subset of black male Obama voters who refused to vote for a black woman to be governor of Georgia, effectively throwing in with GA's male-dominated white Republican Party against liberal government and women's equality.