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Why California will stay blue
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | November 8, 2010 | Jane Junn

Posted on 11/08/2010 12:48:39 PM PST by artichokegrower

While the rest of the nation went red in Tuesday's midterm elections, California emerged even bluer. What's going on?

The standard answer is that registered Democrats outnumber registered Republicans, and that many decline-to-state voters lean Democratic.

But there's a more telling reason, one that promises to keep California blue for years. The state's rising numbers of new voters - newly minted immigrant voters, minorities and voters between the ages of 18 and 29 - are overwhelmingly Democratic in their preferences.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: blue; boxer; brown; ca; election; kalifornia; leftcoast
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To: artichokegrower

Actually make that color red, not blue, because they are a bunch of Reds.


61 posted on 11/08/2010 1:49:33 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: artichokegrower
*The huge influx of immigrants into California has created a socialist state. Not that this is news but at least the college professor is admitting to the strategy. We white folks need to just get old, die off and this country will turn into a paradise.*

Not only white, but all Americans and legal immigrants that love and understand what America is about.

When we all die off, then they can have a worker's paradise like the Soviet Union, PolPot’s Happy Happy Good Luck Cambodia, Castro's Number One In Healthcare Cuba (would Michael Moore lie?), Ceausescu's Fun Park, or Chavez's Extreme Economy Boosting Highly Successful Venezuela!

WooHoo!

Note to those in the paradise, don't try to escape. And above all, never ever disagree with the government. You may join the ranks of the 100,000,000 that did in the last century in a common grave. The Anthony-like glorious leaders may wish you into the cornfield!

62 posted on 11/08/2010 1:50:15 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: j.argese
The problem is, well for us in the other 49, we’ll be picking up California’s tab.

Maybe, but you don't have to.

If you elect enough conservatives and Republicans with a spine, you can use the House to starve California of any cash.

The result, insolvency, will put the state in the hands of a Federal judge that will impose on California only the policies needed to make the state solvent.

63 posted on 11/08/2010 1:52:50 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
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To: brytlea
*Can the rest of the country just vote them off the island?*

Can we do a secede in reverse?
Let's toss Kalifornia out.

Warn the good people and let all the knuckleheads that voted for the Marxists stay there.

No exports to Kalifornia allowed. No electricity (they don't like it anyway—it has that nasty carbon they hate and are so afraid of). Likewise with gas and oil.

The only thing we get from them is movies, but the liberal garbage that comes from the celbritards that influences the duller amongst us offsets the benefits of the few good movies that are made.

We can always make movies in Chicago and NJ like we did in the old days.

Bye-bye California, too bad you didn't want to keep the “C”.

Maybe your good friend Calderon will will let you become part of Mexico?
maybe you could elect a drug “lord” from Mexico to run things for you! Or maybe he'll just step in and run things anyway.

Then you can be so happy when all cities are sanctuary cities.

you all will be SO happy!

64 posted on 11/08/2010 1:58:25 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: Inyo-Mono

I’m willing to brainstorm it ...


65 posted on 11/08/2010 2:01:19 PM PST by j.argese (Boycott Nevada.)
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To: PATRIOT1876

Actually, I also think TX has some movie studios so, yes, goodbye CA!
(apologies to any good FReepers who live there—please, come on, leave!)


66 posted on 11/08/2010 2:01:41 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: dragnet2

They’d done that anyway ~ he’s their kinda folks.


67 posted on 11/08/2010 2:02:57 PM PST by muawiyah (GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
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To: CaliforniaCon
California is like a roach hotel; easy to get in but hard to get out. Real estate is the trap. I remember the sticker shock of buying a house here in California and thinking that the prices were way over priced in comparison to the rest of the country. I was reassured by the real estate agent that it was a good investment and that California Real Estate would continue to appreciate 10% per year. I realize now that I am at the bottom of the pyramid of a huge ponzi scheme and that it will be hard to unload my house without a huge loss.

There is no fighting what is happening here in California. The country was invaded by Mexico, ransacked and pillaged without one shot every being fired. I went to the mall and realized that I was the only Caucasian there among several hundred people . That doesn't make Caucasians a minority, they are practically extinct in large areas of California. The only solution is austerity measures to systematically stop all welfare on a five year timetable. It is better to wean people off now than to have our monetary system suddenly collapse and have millions in the street rioting and dying.

68 posted on 11/08/2010 2:12:11 PM PST by pterional
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To: brytlea
*Actually, I also think TX has some movie studios so, yes, goodbye CA!
(apologies to any good FReepers who live there—please, come on, leave!)*

Agreed.

Come on Freepers!
Leave before the People's State of kalifornia doesn't allow anyone to leave.

69 posted on 11/08/2010 2:22:28 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: dragnet2
Didn't “moonbeam” promise illegals a free State paid for education and health care while going to school... ALL for free? I'll bet that had more to do with the 2 to 1 ratio than the maid deal... that and the laraza reconquesta.

LLS

70 posted on 11/08/2010 2:27:38 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: j.argese

Well, come on out and join me we’ll try and figure it out. Be sure to bring all your guns and we’ll do a little target shooting right outside of town here.


71 posted on 11/08/2010 2:38:02 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: RockinRight

That’s the map I LIKE! Let them take SF and LA and the rest of us can have San Diego and Sacto. The capitol of ‘west’ CA can be somewhere in the SF Bay area — hey, how about San Fran Nan’s property?

And maybe Sean Penn can play governor. Such fun imagining the various nutjobs holding offices in a West Kalifornia.


72 posted on 11/08/2010 2:43:00 PM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: Albion Wilde
But I'm confused -- are the colors reversed?

No, the colors you normally see are reversed. The MSM decided to stick the Republicans with Commie Red during the 2000 election. Before that, red always meant communist.

73 posted on 11/08/2010 2:52:06 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Disambiguator

“By your screen name, I would guess that you might be in the greater Half Moon Bay metropolitan area.”

Actually south of there in Santa Cruz County. This area of the state makes the rest of California seem quite conservative in comparison.


74 posted on 11/08/2010 2:52:24 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Reeses

They will do everything in their power to feed their voter base with federal funds. Kaleefornians cannot possibly handle the load. It has to come from outside the state.


75 posted on 11/08/2010 3:16:54 PM PST by evad (Every time a conservative votes, a liberal cries)
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To: pterional
There is no fighting what is happening here in California. The country was invaded by Mexico, ransacked and pillaged without one shot every being fired. I went to the mall and realized that I was the only Caucasian there among several hundred people

It happens.

The White House was invaded by Kenya, ransacked and pillaged without one shot being fired.

Only the power of a mighty wind called the Tea Party was able to turn things around.

Kallefornia needs their version of the same thing...but it will not happen.

Therefore, it is lost.

76 posted on 11/08/2010 3:25:53 PM PST by evad (Every time a conservative votes, a liberal cries)
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To: artichokegrower; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; rabscuttle385; ...
RE :”But there's a more telling reason, one that promises to keep California blue for years. The state's rising numbers of new voters - newly minted immigrant voters, minorities and voters between the ages of 18 and 29 - are overwhelmingly Democratic in their preferences.While California has not been majority white for more than a decade, its voting population has been slower to change, reflecting the time lag needed for immigrants to become citizens and register to vote, and for their children to grow to adulthood. Today, one-third of registered voters are minorities, 19 percent of whom are Latinos. Asian Americans represent 7 percent, with African Americans at 6 percent. These voters supported Democrats in statewide races by double-digit margins, according to exit polls. Voters under 30 years old favored Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman by a whopping 27 points.

Our MD socialist governor calls illegals ‘New Americans’ and offered them tuition discounts at state universities and proposed special drivers licences for illegals to get around Real ID.

Republicans need strategies to counter this voting block, if not to get them to vote Republicans, then to get them turned off to Democrats on election day. You hire a conservative Hispanic to get on TV and complain about how Democrats have screw them. And dont end the commercial by saying “Don't vote!: like that one group did in NV. if you tell people NOT to vote, they will vote to defy you. Let them figure that out. That was so stupid.

No on RINO stuff like amnesty and spending, that will backfire.

77 posted on 11/08/2010 6:23:09 PM PST by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: CaliforniaCon

One thing I amended since making that map - I’d probably take Long Beach out of LA County and make it the westernmost part of OC - therefore part of East California. Although it’s leftist, the port would be valuable, and the population of LB relatively small enough not to turn East Cali into a Democrat State. So East Cali still has two large metro areas in total - San Diego and Sacto, the Inland Empire, a small part of the Bay, Sequoia National Park, the Central Valley, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Tahoe.

West California gets LA, San Francisco, and Oakland...and part of Redwood National Forest. Although I’ve debated taking Del Norte County and adding it to East California.

It’s all a pipe dream.


78 posted on 11/08/2010 7:19:46 PM PST by RockinRight (if the choice is between Crazy and Commie, I choose Crazy.)
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To: forgotten man

The Dems would love to pass “comprehensive insanity” for they can legalize and import even more Democratic voters.


79 posted on 11/09/2010 3:18:42 AM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: artichokegrower

it only stays blue as long as someone or another political crooks keep making sure the legislative insanity there keeps getting funds from somewhere. Sooner or later the market will make an adult out of anybody if they depend on it.


80 posted on 11/09/2010 3:35:59 AM PST by mo
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