When Juleigh Chin was on the campaign trail asking voters to elect her to the Nassau County Legislature, there had never been anyone on the chamber's dais in Mineola who resembled her.

She ran in a newly drawn northwest district with the county's largest Asian American population in her first bid for political office. She knew it would be a challenge to knock off the Republican incumbent. Although she did not win, she learned about the electorate there.

"Asians don't necessarily fall along party lines. They might be registered as either a Democrat or a Republican or even a blank, but that doesn't necessarily dictate the way that they will vote. They really do want to be inspired by a candidate," said Chin, a first-generation American born to Korean immigrant parents. "They know what th

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