We are where California was in 1990 -1995 time frame on the demographic replacement path.
End of the 1990s was when California went into it's current death spiral
I’m from California, and I think you are spot on.
The recall of Grey Davis was a reaction but Arnold was no Conan.
The nation is definitely where CA was then and the problem we have is where do we go if we've already left CA and that morass has metastasized to the nation?