The only way the GOP can avoid angering a voting bloc like Prop 187 allegedly did is to pray that liars be struck dead. It was a lying, full-court, wall-to-wall, 24/7 attack, attack, attack! against Prop 187.
The attack, attack, attack! continues to this day and I remind everyone that Mexico's representatives who are prominent in California's politics, like Art Torres, still crow that Prop 187 was "white America's last gasp."
So I have to disagree with that part. The Republicans usually get around 30 percent of the vote of Americans of Hispanic origin if I remember correctly. That is about the percentage that voted for Prop 187. There may have been a little more in 2004 but I counter that almost fifty percent of Americans of Hispanic origin voted for Arizona's Prop 200.
I emphasize Americans because I swear I do not see them as part of a foreign voting block -- though I am not saying that you intended to imply that we should bow to foreigners' and internationalists' wants and desires.
I remember that 1994 campaign. In those days I had a TV. It was a full-court, 24/7 attack, attack, attack! One anti-Prop 187 group offered David Duke a large sum of money to attend a discussion "forum" on Prop 187 -- he of course was to argue for Prop 187 as the camera rolled.
Attack, attack, attack! Moderate Republicans like Jack Kemp and Jeb Bush joined in the attack, attack, attack! MSM employees helped lead the attack, attack, attack!
The only ad for Prop 187 that I remember was the "revolving door" ad. It was very effective showing the TRUTH that foreigners come and go as they please. That was TRUE. Yet, the attack, attack, attack! campaign has spun the ad to be one of the worst, most vicious, bigoted ads ever produced.
Yes, this is what we get from our media. They join with the democrats and fund these attack ads. They organize marches and bus sympathetic voters in. There are lots of "Americans of Hispanic descent" who are not friends of illegal immigration. But I bet they "take in " cousins who are new in country and help them find work too. In other words they realize we may all be better off with less legal immigration and zero illegal immigration but in the community they live in they stand unided against the native population whom they consider to be against them. This is how gangs infiltrate the hispanic communitities as well. In the privacy of the voting booth they may be opposed, but when peer pressure is present they cave.