[ebersole]

People think Colorado is purple, but in the last 2-4 years, it is blue blue blue. Too many Kalifornians have moved in along with illegal immigrants. I believe the only thing that has saved CO from financial destruction as seen in CA due to government incompetence is TABOR. As soon as the dems can find a way to overturn or render TABOR useless, we will go the way of CA.

[kabar]

The demographic changes in Colorado have been dramatic over the past 20 years. In 1990 the foreign born population of the state was 139,800 including 32,712 Mexican-born; in 2000, it was 380,841 with 192,427 Mexican-born . In 2008 there are 489,187 foreign born and the Hispanic population is 963,831 or 19.9% of the population.

Internal migration from CA certainly contributes to the demographic changes, but so does immigration. Colorado is rapidly becoming a blue state. People like Tancredo understand what is happening.