[Lurking Libertarian]

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.

[Maverick68]

Not Latino, rather MEXICAN voters.....

[Psycho_Bunny]

California slit its own throat.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

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....

[Marty62]

Cali went it’s own way...yeah right.....DON’T BOTHER COMING TO THE REST OF US FOR A BAILOUT.

[Argus]

This state is doomed.

[InternetTuffGuy]

What’s the saying — as goes Mexico, so goes California. Can’t wait for the beheadings and law by narcogopoly.

[Argus]

This state is doomed.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

California’s got a heap of electoral votes, it will remain a major contributor to the Democrat effort to take this country down.

[curiosity]

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.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

At this rate, CA will be a third-world cesspool in a decade.

[ScottinVA]

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.

[curiosity]

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.

[nathanbedford]

Nathan Bedford's maxim: all politics America is not local but ultimately racial.

[Old Badger]

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!

[paul51]

ca is beyond the point of no return. one demographic is fleeing the state and another is flooding in. the trend is clear and it won't be reversed. it is hard to distinguish larger and larger areas of ca from mexico.

[Longbow1969]

This is the future for more and more states if conservatives do not find a way to win much higher percentages of at least some minority voters.

There are just not enough white people to overcome overwhelmingly losing every minority voting block.

Demographics are moving very quickly against us. Hopefully someone like Rubio can be a candidate for Pres or VP in 2012. That might really shift things and give us a better opportunity in some parts of the country.

[animal172]

What can you expect? The Latinos are almost the majority population in Commufornia. They will be in the next decade. They are like the Muslims. Can't beat us militarily. They will just out populate us.

[Reagan69]

Would those be the government-teat-sucking illegal immigrant Latino voters in California?

“the problem with socialism is that eventually, the socialists will run out of other peoples’ money.”

-The Great Margaret Thatcher.

Oh, and just wait till all the emergency rooms in CA close.. IT IS COMING.

[oneolcop]

“We are going to take California from you just like you took it from us.” -a Mexican man told me one day.

[notaliberal]

It’s the latino family values voters!