Syracuse’s Nina Davuluri, the first Asian American Miss New York, has been crowned 2014′s Miss America, beating out two other Asian American finalists to win the tiara — including 4th Runner Up Rebecca Yeh, Miss Minnesota, who won the talent portion of the scholarship competition with a stirring rendition of Henri Wieniawski’s “Scherzo and Tarantella” on violin, and 1st Runner Up Miss California Crystal Lee, an intern at Dropbox with two degrees from Stanford, who competed on the platform “Women in STEM.”

Meanwhile, Davuluri, the daughter of an Indian American OB/GYN, plans to study to become a cardiologist after finishing out her one-year reign. (Maybe the real winner this year was Tiger Mom?)

Davuluri performed a classical Bollywood dance during the pageant’s talent segment, underscoring her Desi roots. Sadly, this only served to further enraged xenophobes and racists on social media, who all-too-expectedly unleashed a flood of ignorance on Twitter the instant the tiara touched Davuluri’s head.

Some commenters, like Buckeye Elizabeth, chose to attack Davuluri for being Muslim, despite the fact that she is the daughter of Hindu immigrants from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. In previous competitions, the new Miss America has publicly celebrated ancestry as key to helping her succeed on the pageant circuit. ”My Indian origin [has] helped me win,” she told the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu in 2007, after she was named first runner-up for Miss America’s Outstanding Teen, Miss America’s associated pageant for girls 13 to 17.

Davuluri was caught up in a non-race-related controversy during the competition as well, when reports said that she was allegedly overheard calling her predecessor as Miss New York and Miss America, Mallory Hagan, “fat as f***.” An investigation by the Miss America Organization found the charges groundless — and particularly unlikely, given Davuluri’s revelations after her Miss New York victory of her own struggles with bulimia during college, when she weighed as much as 170 pounds.

The new Miss America was confronted with a challenging question during the poise portion of the competition when judge Carla Hall (of ABC’s “The Chew”) asked her to reflect on the revelation by Julie Chen, of her decision to have plastic surgery to look “less Asian.” Davuluri’s answer: She’s against it. But in her response, she also managed to drop a pointed remark: “I’ve always viewed Miss America as the girl next door. And Miss America is always evolving.”

As was proven on Sunday night, the climax of a pageant that featured five Asian American contestants, more than any in Miss America history — something underscored by the fact that the first runner up, Miss California, wasn’t even the pageant’s only Crystal Lee: Miss Hawaii, a hapa Chinese from Waipahu, also shared the name, which would’ve caused all kinds of havoc had both Crystal Lees made it to the final five. As it is, with Asian Americans representing a full 60% of next year’s court, the haters will have a full year to get used to the reality that the “girl next door” looks decidedly different in this, the 13th year of the 21st century.

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[Correction: An earlier version of this post stated that Nina Davuluri "is the daughter of Hindu immigrants from the Indian state of Telugu." She is the daughter of Hindu immigrants from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.]