What Happened to California Republicans? Victor Davis Hanson

[mystery-ak]

What Happened to California Republicans?
Victor Davis Hanson

Posted: Nov 14, 2019 12:01 AM

From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California's 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans.

In 1994, then-Gov. Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187, which denied state social services to undocumented immigrants. The spin goes that it backfired, alienated the Hispanic community and thus marked the road to Republican perdition.

Not quite.

Prop 187 passed with 59 percent support. Wilson's endorsement of the bill helped its passage, and his support of it aided his landslide 1994 re-election. Among minority voters, 52 percent of Asian and African American voters supported Proposition 187. Some 27 percent of Latinos voted for it.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/11/14/what-happened-to-california-republicans-n2556419

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Most have left for another state.

[skeeter]

California is what happens when a state effectively replaces its voting population within a relatively short period of time.

[sneakypete]

People who go there to retire in place on all the freebies ain't about to vote for anyone they think will cut the freebies off and make them go to work.

[skeeter]

People who go there to retire in place on all the freebies ain't about to vote for anyone they think will cut the freebies off and make them go to work.

No they won't. It doesn't matter if most of them are 250 years behind on what passes for social issues today - they are too ignorant and greedy to realize how the rats are using them.

[roamer_1]

What Happened to California Republicans?

Populism/pragmatism... Coming soon to your state too.

[goatprairie]

From sources I've read it seems pretty easy to see what happened to California Republicans. They got outbirthed.
Since the eighties the percentage of the Hispanic, chiefly Mexican-American population has risen dramatically. The population of native Californian Republicans not nearly as much.
The Hispanic Californians are far more likely to vote for Dems by a four to one ratio. 
Even with many non-Hispanic liberals leaving California to ruin other states, the birth of many more Hispanics in California fixes that problem.
Demographics is political destiny. It happened in California, it happened in Virginia, and it looks like it will happen in Texas.

[Fishrrman]

goat wrote:
"...Demographics is political destiny. It happened in California, it happened in Virginia, and it looks like it will happen in Texas."

Everything you wrote in the post above is dead-on accurate.

But there are STILL folks here who really, really believe that "all of us are equal", and that it makes no difference to replace one ethnicity with another.

And there's still the risk of censure for saying so.

If we are to survive as a nation and a culture, we MUST start "saying so".

Or... be "replaced".
As has already happened in California.
With only 28% of its K-12 population "Euro-Anglo", Texas is now becoming the next-most-likely candidate. It may already be just a matter of time there.

When will we learn?

[truth_seeker]

goat wrote:


But there are STILL folks here who really, really believe that "all of us are equal", and that it makes no
With only 28% of its K-12 population "Euro-Anglo", Texas is now becoming the next-most-likely candidate.

We are all equal in the eyes of the law, and have the right to equal opportunity, but not equal outcomes.

We need Hispanics, like Kanye and Candace, ready to push back.

A strong movement to repeal Newscum, and repeal some tax hikes.