Victor observed:
"California's politics have more in common with Latin America than with the United States of America..."
Well, that's what happens when you shift the ethnicity of a state from "white majority" to "white minority", with a HUGE number of Hispanics in the mix, both legal and illegal.
Demography is destiny.
Change the demographic makeup of the state (or country), and you change the state (or country) into something that no longer resembles "what it was".
The United States is not -- it NEVER was, and it never could become -- a country based upon ideals by which you could replace its original population with another one from a completely different "world", and expect it to remain "the same". That's because no nation can remain the same when its former population is replaced by another. Ask the French or Germans about that -- they're in the process of replacing their populations right now.
Not everyone can be (or become) who we as Americans are.
Yet there are far too many conservatives who will still claim "anyone can become an American" to be "our ideal", reshuffling those ideals around as if they were deck chairs on the Titanic, as the nation sinks and everything that once made America unique and exceptional is destroyed.
I'm not one of them.
I sense that others are awakening, but by the time enough folks wake up, it's gonna be too late to reverse things. It's probably too late already.
Remember...
"Only we can be us".