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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.
1 posted on 11/04/2010 11:24:06 AM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
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Not Latino, rather MEXICAN voters.....


2 posted on 11/04/2010 11:25:30 AM PDT by Maverick68
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California slit its own throat.


3 posted on 11/04/2010 11:28:12 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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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....


4 posted on 11/04/2010 11:30:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Cali went it’s own way...yeah right.....DON’T BOTHER COMING TO THE REST OF US FOR A BAILOUT.


5 posted on 11/04/2010 11:30:11 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty 60)
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This state is doomed.


6 posted on 11/04/2010 11:31:06 AM PDT by Argus
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What’s the saying — as goes Mexico, so goes California. Can’t wait for the beheadings and law by narcogopoly.


7 posted on 11/04/2010 11:31:09 AM PDT by InternetTuffGuy
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This state is doomed.


8 posted on 11/04/2010 11:31:16 AM PDT by Argus
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California’s got a heap of electoral votes, it will remain a major contributor to the Democrat effort to take this country down.


9 posted on 11/04/2010 11:33:07 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Save the liver!)
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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.

11 posted on 11/04/2010 11:33:28 AM PDT by curiosity
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At this rate, CA will be a third-world cesspool in a decade.


12 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.)
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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.

16 posted on 11/04/2010 11:36:22 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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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.
17 posted on 11/04/2010 11:36:22 AM PDT by curiosity
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Nathan Bedford's maxim: all politics America is not local but ultimately racial.


18 posted on 11/04/2010 11:38:24 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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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!

20 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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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.
22 posted on 11/04/2010 11:41:30 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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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.


23 posted on 11/04/2010 11:43:45 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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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.
24 posted on 11/04/2010 11:44:06 AM PDT by animal172 (Where are you America?)
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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.


25 posted on 11/04/2010 11:45:41 AM PDT by Reagan69 (Let me know when those health insurance premiums go down.)
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“We are going to take California from you just like you took it from us.” -a Mexican man told me one day.


26 posted on 11/04/2010 11:47:37 AM PDT by oneolcop (Lead, Follow or Get the Hell Out of the Way!)
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It’s the latino family values voters!


27 posted on 11/04/2010 11:49:40 AM PDT by notaliberal
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