I knew someone would say that.
Fact is, 10 years ago he was downplaying the Invasion.
He may be 5th generation but he’s surrounded out there in Fresno by a bunch of the Nueva Darkies working for all his land holding brethern: he’s one of the landed class, just not really big. Which is why he can talk about it...the rest of them could give a crap as long as Los Indigeanos keep picking the grapes, pecans and mowing lawns.
Two Californias
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
December 15, 2010 5:00 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/12/two-californias-victor-davis-hanson/
I think I know the answer to this paradox. Missing entirely in the above description is the attitude of the host, which by any historical standard can only be termed “indifferent.” California does not care whether one broke the law to arrive here or continues to break it by staying. It asks nothing of the illegal immigrant — no proficiency in English, no acquaintance with American history and values, no proof of income, no record of education or skills. It does provide all the public assistance that it can afford (and more that it borrows for), and apparently waives enforcement of most of California’s burdensome regulations and civic statutes that increasingly have plagued productive citizens to the point of driving them out. How odd that we overregulate those who are citizens and have capital to the point of banishing them from the state, but do not regulate those who are aliens and without capital to the point of encouraging millions more to follow in their footsteps. How odd — to paraphrase what Critias once said of ancient Sparta — that California is at once both the nation’s most unfree and most free state, the most repressed and the wildest.
Hundreds of thousands sense all that and vote accordingly with their feet, both into and out of California — and the result is a sort of social, cultural, economic, and political time-bomb, whose ticks are getting louder.
VDH wrote “Mexifornia” in 2003.