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California went its own way: Strength of the Latino vote is a key factor
The Los Angeles Times ^
| November 4, 2010
| Cathleen Decker
Posted on 11/04/2010 11:23:59 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
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Back in Ronald Reagan's day, the Latino vote in California was very competitive between Ds & Rs; Mexican-Americans tend to be socially conservative, if economically liberal. What changed everything was Pete Wilson's support for the anti-illegal immigrant Proposition 187 in 1994; that made Mexican-Americans (even the ones whose families had been in California for decades) turn on the Republicans. California elections have never been the same since then.
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Not Latino, rather MEXICAN voters.....
To: Lurking Libertarian
California slit its own throat.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:28:12 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
To: Lurking Libertarian
All those Mexican voters can line up outside Boxer’s and Brown’s office for handouts when all the middle class whites have left California....
To: Lurking Libertarian
Cali went it’s own way...yeah right.....DON’T BOTHER COMING TO THE REST OF US FOR A BAILOUT.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:30:11 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(Marty 60)
To: Lurking Libertarian
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:31:06 AM PDT
by
Argus
To: Lurking Libertarian
What’s the saying — as goes Mexico, so goes California. Can’t wait for the beheadings and law by narcogopoly.
To: Lurking Libertarian
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:31:16 AM PDT
by
Argus
To: Lurking Libertarian
California’s got a heap of electoral votes, it will remain a major contributor to the Democrat effort to take this country down.
To: Marty62
DONT BOTHER COMING TO THE REST OF US FOR A BAILOUT. Yep, spending bills have to originate in the House - as in newly-GOP House. Jerry Brown will have to bail out the boat by himself.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:33:07 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Lurking Libertarian
What changed everything was Pete Wilson's support for the anti-illegal immigrant Proposition 187 in 1994; Yes, that's the conventional wisdom, I agree, but there's very little evidence to support it, and quite a bit of evidence that isn't consistent with it.
For example, opposition to 187 didn't seem to help the GOP candidate in 1998.
To: Lurking Libertarian
At this rate, CA will be a third-world cesspool in a decade.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:33:38 AM PDT
by
rightwingintelligentsia
(Forcing one person to pay for the irresponsibility of another is NOT social justice.)
To: Argus
“This state is doomed.”
That’s English for “AZTLAN.”
To: InternetTuffGuy
The Hispanic vote nationally is 65 to 70% Democrat. This is an ominous sign for futre elections. We only have two or three election cycles to somehow remedy this — it will not be remedied by becoming Democrat Lite.
Something big will have to be done to blunt the Democratic faction. My suggestion is to cripple the unions to the point they have no real political power.
To: InternetTuffGuy
Maybe we could build a wall around California. They need to decide whether they are US or Mexico, and as long as some good friends get out first I wouldn’t mind a bit if California became part of Mexico right before dropping into the sea.
I know that’s a terrible thing to say. Not sure if I really mean it intellectually, but it’s what I’m feeling right now. What I really want is for them to get right in the head, but if the past 2 years haven’t been a big enough kick in the pants then anything that could wake them up would most likely kill them as well.
To: Lurking Libertarian
In one declarative night, California on Tuesday confirmed its status as a political world unto itself, zigging determinedly Democratic while most of the rest of the country zagged Republican. Which is precisely why CA is destined to fail. They live in their own fantasy world, completely divorced from reality.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:36:22 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
To: Lurking Libertarian
I'd also add that the proportion of California Latinos voting Republican, either in statewide races or presidential contests, did not significantly change after 1992, flatly contradicting your prop-187-is-to-blame hypothesis.
To: Lurking Libertarian
Nathan Bedford's maxim: all politics America is not local but ultimately racial.
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:38:24 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: SarahPalin2012
The Hispanic vote nationally is 65 to 70% Democrat. Yup, and that percentage has been relatively stable over the last 30 years.
To: Lurking Libertarian
Pete Wilson was correct in pushing that
Illegal Alien proposition.
What the new congress needs to remember NO BAILOUTS for California and New York. Let them stew in the stew of their own making. For them to forget that is at their peril!
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posted on
11/04/2010 11:40:17 AM PDT
by
Old Badger
(boy do opportunities abound everywhere for Real Conservatives!)
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