Posted on 01/03/2016 8:53:35 AM PST by Pelham
Throughout much of the 20th century, Orange County attracted white middle-class and upper-middle-class residents who were either fleeing an increasingly diverse and liberal Los Angeles or were relocating from the Midwest and the South and bringing conservative regional values with them....
Also helping focus the political energy was The Orange County Register's ardent libertarian slant, ...
Republicans' share of county voter registration peaked in 1990, when they outpaced Democrats by 22 percentage points. The GOP's edge is now 8 points and shrinking, and its share of registered county voters fell below 40 percent for the first time in December. Non-Latino whites are now a minority of the population....
...Proposition 187, co-authored in 1994 by Huntington Beach anti-illegal immigration activist Barbara Coe, called for an end to all public benefits for those living here illegally, including education. It passed with a whopping 59 percent of the state's vote.
It subsequently was ruled unconstitutional and has become an albatross for California Republicans, who have watched Latinos flock to the Democratic Party in greater numbers ever since. It was a cornerstone of GOP Gov. Pete Wilson's 1994 re-election campaign, but you'll be hard-pressed to find a Republican candidate in the state today who invokes the measure....
...Many mainstream conservatives like Baugh often steer clear of controversial social and ethnic issues championed by the likes of Taitz, Coe, Gilchrist and Pauly. They focus instead on issues like public pension and education reform and remain confident that their brand of politics will continue to resonate in the county.
“Conservative candidates are still being elected,†said Baugh, pointing out that more Republicans held Orange County offices when he stepped down as county chairman last January than when he took the post in 2004. “The conservative movement is alive and well.â€..
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
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Chase out all their illegals, and we’ll see what happens.
The Conservative people will just be outbred by the Transi/Prog/Lib idiots that are being lured into So. Cal.
I won’t even bother reading this rag, they went over to the liberal promotion of illegals many years ago, which is also when I dropped my subscription.
Fleeing "diverse" LA...very subtle charge of racism against those fleeing residents. Is the OC Register a liberal paper? Or is that just something all papers do instinctively?
“I won’t even bother reading this rag, they went over to the liberal promotion of illegals many years ago, “
You’re right about the OC Register promoting illegals, but it came from their libertarian ideology. Too stupid to see that they were funding their own destruction.
“It subsequently was ruled unconstitutional and has become an albatross for California Republicans, who have watched Latinos flock to the Democratic Party in greater numbers ever since.”
Republicans always seem to be on the defensive side of things. A day late and a dollar short.
“Is the OC Register a liberal paper?”
Used to be libertarian. On social issues they were often fellow travelers with the Left.
The Republican Party in California abandoned their base long ago. In the Prop 187 fight, grassroots voters were opposed by GOPe heavyweights who sided with illegals.
Those GOPe heavyweights included Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and the then governor of Texas GW Bush.
The OC Register ain’t what it used to be.
I always look at the Sunday Opinion section to see what the resident Letter to the Editor Liberal Ed Pyle decides to contribute.
The guy is certifiable, but the Register has made him the most published opinion letter writer I have ever seen.
They did print an Article I wrote back in 2004, but that was a whole different Newspaper. Unfortunately, they edited out most of the juicy stuff I wrote. LOL
OC could use its own news website.
Proposition 187 remains the law of the State of California.
Mariana Pfaelzer put parts of it under injunction. Temporary injunction.
Gray Davis refused to appeal it to the Supreme Court as was his sworn duty. He instead took it to the Arbitration service of the 9th Circuit, and instead of defending it, negotiated a permanent injunction with Mexican Separatist organizations. He knew if he appealed it that it would likely win, and Pfaelzer’s nonsense arguments would be overturned.
For this action Mr. Davis was the first governor ever recalled in California.
From that we got Schwarzennegger but it should have been McClintock. As noted here, garbage like Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp and the Bush family intervened rabidly to push out pro-187 Republicans.
Illegal immigration is the Issue of the century. Trump understands it, and will ride it to the Presidency.
Mexico has conquered California. All one has to do is look at who fills most government positions. It is only a matter of time until the Mexican flag is raised over California’s public buildings and Spanish is made the official state language. Our only hope being an all out knock down drag out fight between blacks and Mexicans over division of the remaining spoils coupled with “Turf Control.”
There are lots of Asians living in OC. Except for the Vietnamese they are only conservative with regard to how they bring up their children. They vote like Jews, i.e. support their local schools and neighborhoods, while also supporting excessive state social spending and progressive legislation.
I visit my buds in Costa Mesa and usually eat at Coco’s. Most of the customers read the local paper, the Pilot while the OCR is in another pile unread.
California is a superb example of what would happen to the Republican party if it follows the “big tent”, “moderate” Republican leaders. Basically it has surrendered to the Democrats. It no longer resists their ideas in any substantive way, and in many things it actively supports them.
As such, it has stopped being an opposition party, or a place where new ideas emerge, and there is no purpose in supporting it or attracting new members. It is moribund. And its leaders are content with that.
It's like the "official opposition party" in a dictatorship.
Too bad we don’t have the activist organizations like we used to (says the old YAFer.)
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