Posted on 12/19/2010 6:20:36 AM PST by Kaslin
Sad. Mexifornia has been a reconquista success for La Raza.
Can Arizona be far behind?
Ha! Tim’s a pipsqueak! I’m a native, 63yrs old. Use to hike all over the place by myself, sleeping on the ground, never gave a thought to being harmed.
Born in Alameda when San Fransisco waters washed the water breaks of the walls of the old hospital.
Just for fun, google postcards of Alameda, and tell me if things have changed!
Heartbreaking, isn’t it!
This is a fine article, Kaslin. As a California native, I agree with it completely. What the politicians did to this beautiful state is a crime, and a crying shame.
California has changed. The United States has changed. Much of this “change” has been the result of people working for “change.” Want to see the results of this “change?” Look to places that have progressed on the road to “change” the most. Detroit will give you a glimpse of our future. It was all done for the children or the environment. Detroit is so much greener these days.
California had already turned to shit by the time you were born!!!
I know of what California was once like, especially just after WW2. It certainly was beautiful. My heart goes out to you who remember what it was like.
Victor Davis Hanson (sp?) had an excellent articles on this recently in NRO.
I was going to say that the rot had begun to take hold by the mid-Seventies.
If I had to pick a year when America had achieved its pinnacle of aggregate greatness, I’d pick 1964. LBJ’s Great Society and the explosive growth of government began shortly afterwards. Exporting jobs, paying people not to work, and importing aliens who want our bounty while keeping their Old Country prejudices and allegiance has brought ruin to our economy and society.
Do you mean "fraught," or perhaps "rife?"
Regards,
After the 40s and 50s it was all downhill!!!
My family came to So. California in 1857 and my wifes family came to So. California in the 1830s, being 73 I at least got to live part of the good years.
don’t lump Arizona in with CA, they’re nothing like each other. AZ is a mostly conservative state and we are taking steps to keep it that way. Its a shame, but it seems like CA is beyond saving and the sensible course of action may be to cut your losses and leave. All right minded Californians will be welcome here, sure the weather sucks in July and August but that’s what a/c was invented for.
We use to visit family there every couple of years until about 15 years ago when it just went in the toilet. My aunt, a 30 year resident, moved back to her home state a year ago - fed up totally with California.
We use to visit family there every couple of years until about 15 years ago when it just went in the toilet. My aunt, a 30 year resident, moved back to her home state a year ago - fed up totally with California.
Hey! I’m on your side!
Point me to the border...I’ll shoot any one who crosses.
geez, kid... you should have seen it when I was a kid (20 years earlier than you)
I was born in Kali in 1945 and grew up there, the son of lower middle class, blue collar workers. My grandparents immigrated from Sicily in the 1890’s and farmed.
Money was never plentiful but we lived in a three bedroom tract house in Orange County and seemed to lack none of the necessities.
I was the beneficiary of the best public school system in the nation at the time. I also benefited from one of the better land-grant university systems. I enlisted in the Army there, went to war, and when I returned I married and started a family there.
But, even in the 70’s things had started to change. Drug use was rampant, welfare had also become widespread, and the cities were starting a decay, most notably San Francisco. The local public schools had become a laboratory of social experimentation to the point where we put the kids in a local Episcopal day school (only marginally better than the public schools until we staged a parent revolt and cleaned most of the lefty teachers out.
Oh, and the first wave of illegals was making an appearance.
Then, in the late 80’s after returning from a 3 year stint in London, I looked around and realized that the Golden State of my youth and early adult years was gone. I bailed out in 1990 for Colorado.
The public school system of my youth was well on its way to its final last place dismal ranking. For the first time, the streets and highway were littered with trash. Then foreign enclaves mentioned in the article had started to appear (Watsonville comes to mind...in the 60’s it was probably 80% white. By the 90’s, it was probably 70% Hispanic. Today? Seems almost 90% Hispanic.) with the attendant trashiness and gang-related problems that seem to come with that sort of demographic shift.
I just returned from my 2010 ‘friends and family Christmas tour. I drove the state extensively and can tell you it is just as Hanson wrote. The infrastructure in the form of the roads in particular has been let go to the point in a few years they’ll remind one of Mexico and other third world countries. The trash is unbelievable. Friends are buying more and more off the net just so they don’t have to put up with the surliness of the ‘locals’. The shoppers in the Walmart in Porterville had to be at least 80% Hispanic and that probably represents the local demographic.
The left has caused so many of the problems in Kali and in the country. When are we going to start to hold them accountable for their ‘crimes’ against our society and our culture? When are we going to start decorating lamposts?
“I’m only in my early thirties but can remember a time when my Golden State was a completely different place.”
Maybe so, but even then, it was on the road to Hell.
Bingo!
The “Great Society” laws enacted were anything but that- it was a MAJOR STEP in the downfall of this country FROM greatness.
LBJ should be dug up and then shot and then pissed on for that.
Paying unwed mothers to have children, and welfare benefits for the lazy. What’s so ‘great’ about that?
I agree with you
I was workign in Tucson for 6 months this past year and I am dying to find a way to move back permanently
I loved it
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