Arab Americans flex their muscles at the US midterms ballot box Arabic voting ballots available in two Michigan cities as Arab Americans enjoy growing political power

October 30, 2022   

(National-UAE) The upcoming US midterm elections serve as a reminder of how far the Arab American demographic has come in gaining political power and influence.

In Dearborn, Michigan — the Detroit suburb long considered the heart of America’s Arab American community — Michael Guido first campaigned for mayor in 1985 on a ticket of solving the city’s “Arab problem.” He went on to lead Dearborn for two decades until his death in 2006.

Guido’s predecessor, Orville Hubbard, was mayor from 1942 to 1978 and a segregationist who made racist remarks towards Arab Americans and other minority groups.

“Some people, the Syrians, are even worse than [black people],” Hubbard once said, using a racial epithet.

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