Key point 2: Ethnic integration Additionally, it was once said that Ma, who was born in Hong Kong in 1950 to Hunanese parents, could never win the largely ethnically Taiwanese south. "How could a non-Taiwanese be the president of Taiwan?"
關鍵二：族群融合新象徵此外，原籍中國湖南、1950 年生於香港的馬英九，因其「外省人」身份，曾被認為「跨不過濁水溪」、「不是台灣人怎能當台灣總統？」