And if Prop 13 is at fault for California going deep blue, what explains other states such as New York and Illinois going into the toilet. You can't blame Prop 13 for the problems in those states.
On the hand, the tactic of leftists moving to successful places (such as the formerly successful states of New York and Illinois and California) and turning them into havens for parasites and no-go zones for the productive explains exactly what has happened in all 3 of those states.
To my mind, blaming Prop 13 (which first and foremost was a tax cut and which passed in 1978) for what the left has done to California after Pete Wilson left office in 1999 is bizarre. It is equivalent to blaming the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s for leading to the election of Barack Obama in 2008.
I do not know that Prop 13 had much to do with that. I do know that any city that wanted to pass a local Prop 13 law could have done so.
I also know that more and more power moved to the state level where it is harder to make changes.
Even with all of the liberals in New York, there are enough people upstate to keep their legislature balanced. Even the Illinois legislature was dependably Republican until the 1990's.
In California the once staunch conservative stronghold of Orange County is now just barely Republican and certainly not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
If you're right, then what kind of conservatives were those that collected their lottery winnings when house prices rocketed in the 80's and then left for greener pastures? Did they have any thoughts for their "community"? Or were they just a bunch of self-interested libertarians that got while the getting was good?