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.
Do you mean "fraught," or perhaps "rife?"
Regards,
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.
John Adams, 2nd President of The United States
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This is the key to understanding the decay that is consuming this nation. No government, of any type, is sufficient to restrain an unbridled sinner.
We had maximum freedom here because we largely restrained ourselves by the power of God in our lives. We have left the freedom that comes with self restraint for the bondage of law and government. Decay and dissolution is the only outcome of our current path.
Socialism isn’t only practiced by socialists. In the 1980’s, an acquaintance of mine tried to set up a needlepoint shop in a suburb of Los Angeles. This was to be a tiny, one-room enterprise.
The city government may have long been dominated by “conservative Republicans,” yet because of the fees and paperwork required by the city, she finally threw up her hands in disgust and gave up. Her dream of being an entrepreneur was strangled by red tape.
My uncle came to the central coast in the 1930’s with nothing, and ended up as mayor of Solvang. I think he must have come closer to living the California dream than anyone I know. What a paradise on earth it was, populated by the best sorts of hardworking, politically conservative but personally adventuresome nation-builders.
Now it is a bankrupt, crime infested, Bolshevik Third World toilet. How surpassingly sad.
“Twenty, fifteen, even ten years ago California was a bountiful land of opportunity that beckoned all — Midwesterners to foreigners”
BINGO they all came and F’ed it up.
The Reagan economy was just getting into second gear. Small businesses everywhere and everyone had a groove going on...
What remains now reminds me of the remanants of the "20th Century Motor Company" in Atlas Shrugged.
Here is an odd notion: Mexican-Americans might actually end up being the saviors of California. To explain.
To start with, it wasn’t the Mexican-Americans or illegal Mexicans, or blacks, who screwed things up in California. It was their bountiful collection of crazy white people. They were the ones who embraced incredibly self-destructive, stupid and greedy laws.
They did not address problems, they cultivated problems, and invited ever growing numbers of their deficient kind to California, to revel in their spiritual Sodom and Gomorrah. And eventually they forced out those who remained who were sensible, hard working, and orderly.
Now, the flip side of this was Mexico, which like the rest of central and much of South America, suffers from what can be called, “Old Europe disease”. Its origins lie in the old, dead monarchies and nobility of Europe, whose philosophy of wealthy, elitist control over “the masses” still exists in the polytechnic-graduate hereditary Eurocrats.
In Mexico, about a dozen extended families control almost all of the national wealth and power. But unlike in America, where our billionaires and millionaires don’t mind company in prosperity, actively creating other wealthy people, in Mexico and parts south, there is a social and spiritual sickness that fights against equality of opportunity.
In short, “Old Europe disease” means that the wealthy keep all the wealth to themselves, go to lengths to keep everyone else poor, and can only enjoy their wealth when surrounded by grinding poverty.
In turn, this causes the masses to embrace radical egalitarian socialist and communist philosophies, that seek the overthrow this repugnant elite. Though invariably the leaders of the populists, like Chavez in Venezuela, discover their own lust for absolute power and control, and soon think of themselves as the new elites. And the disease continues, just with new faces at the top.
Be that as it may, it is not hard to imagine why Mexicans wish to leave that revolting order and come to America.
But here’s the rub. Most Mexicans are no dummies. They quickly learn that America is different. That there are no “Patrons” to call them “Peon dogs”. And that with hard work they can actually better their lot.
A persuasive argument. So it should be of no surprise that many Mexicans actually do both integrate and succeed in improving their lot through hard work.
And yet, turning full circle, this brings those Mexicans into *conflict* with the crazy white people in California.
Elsewhere in the US, where Mexican-Americans do not ghettoize, they integrate and prosper, just like sane white people. They do this because they are not oppressed by crazy white people.
So it is a good question. Since crazy white people have about destroyed the economy of California, and are utterly irresponsible about cleaning up their own mess, will eventually the Mexican-Americans step up to the plate and set things to order?
A good question.
My family probably got here in the 1930s, my grandfather was buried here in 1962, and my older brother was born here in the 1940s after the war.
Some people point out that California used to be Republican, but I think that was all it was, California has never been truly, genetically, conservative.
California was never a social conservative, Evangelical/Protestant type state, so liberalism was it’s destiny, even now the impotent Republican party here lacks any real core values, or a large core base of true conservatives to appeal to. There is no deep conservative foundation for a conservative movement to work with, like there was in the South.
If I didn’t know in my heart that as a US taxpayer, I’ll eventually wind up paying for all this, I’d say let them embrace their Democrat governance and slide into fiscal oblivion.
Raised in the Central Valley I remember when folks often forgot to lock their front door.
In the summer us kids would play outside, often 'til midnight due to the heat and parents were OK with it.
I live in a nice neighborhood in Sacramento now...mostly full of Govt employees...but you don't have to drive far to the slums.
Say what you will, but we STILL have the best weather in the nation. And the best produce and agricultural products anywhere.
Sadly, that's all we're the best at besides government growth.