[truthguy]

Such a great article. But what Jimmy fails to mention is the 2-ton elephant in the room. OK I take the risk and say it. Demographics is destiny and California's destiny is sealed. If you dig deep into the demographics of this vote, I will guarantee that those voters who push the D-Button are overwhelmingly post 1965 Americans. California's destiny was sealed with the passage of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. It was that act that changed the destiny of the state. I'll bet not one Californian in 10 even knows what the 1965 Immigration Reform Act is all about. They should. It's too long to go into now but it's what got the ball rolling downhill.

[Myrddin]

Bingo! I recognized the problem in 1999 and
arranged to leave in 2000. Never returning to
live in CA. As a conservative, my vote is always
overwhelmed by the sea of leftists. Demographic
shift ended my voice in the CA political process.

[mrsmel]

And conservatives are dreaming if they believe that whatever “family values” most of these unassimilated immigrants may hold will ever overcome their propensity to vote for the “gimmees”. It hasn’t happened with the black vote as a bloc, even as they have more middle-class voters, and it won’t happen with the Latino voting bloc as a whole. The tide of new immigrants never ends, and they always vote for the gimmees. The rats offer more and more bribes on the taxpayer dime to ensure this while “empowering” them as a victim class.

[Smokeyblue]

I had to look up...”1965 Immigration Reform Act”

Found this article. A must read.

The High Price Today of Immigration Reform in 1965
By Ben Johnson
http://hnn.us/articles/1175.html

America’s current mass immigration mess is the result of a change in the laws in 1965. Prior to 1965, despite some changes in the 50’s, America was a low-immigration country basically living under immigration laws written in 1924. Thanks to low immigration, the swamp of cheap labor was largely drained during this period, America became a fundamentally middle-class society, and our many European ethnic groups were brought together into a common national culture. In some ways, this achievement was so complete that we started to take for granted what we had achieved and forgot why it happened. So in a spasm of sentimentality on the Right and lies on the Left, we opened the borders.

SNIP

Chief among national concerns was total numeric immigration. Senate floor manager and Camelot knight-errant Ted Kennedy assured jittery senators that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.” Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting “the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much.” Time has proven otherwise. Average immigration levels before the 1965 amendments took effect hovered around 300,000 per annum. Yet 1,045,000 legal immigrants flooded our cities in 1996 alone.

The 1965 “reform” reoriented policy away from European ethnic groups, yet implemented numbers similar to 1950’s rates in an attempt to keep immigration under control. However, members of Congress managed to miss a loophole large enough to allow a 300 percent in immigration, because they did not take into account two “sentimental” provisions. Under the bill, immediate family members of U.S. citizens and political refugees would face no quotas. Their likely impact on the nation was ignored, presumably because aiding families and the dispossessed cast the right emotive glow.