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How California, land of Nixon and Reagan, turned blue and changed American politics
news.yahoo ^ | 06/04/2023 | Mark Z. Barabak

Posted on 06/05/2023 8:27:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Bill Clinton was busy filling Cabinet positions and shaping his economic agenda when a memo landed from a team of political advisors. Although Clinton was still more than a month away from becoming president, the topic was his reelection nearly four years off.

Marked confidential and spilling over nearly eight pages, the document outlined a strategy considered vital to Clinton’s hopes for a second term: Lock down California and its generous share of electoral votes so his campaign could "concentrate its energy on other, more tightly contested, states.”

In 1992, Arkansas’ five-term governor became the first Democratic presidential candidate in nearly three decades to carry California, the political birthplace of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Few, if any, considered Clinton’s victory in California the start of a political realignment; he won just 46% of the vote.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: blue; california; nixon; reagan
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Open borders and idiots from the east coast moving there is the problem.
1 posted on 06/05/2023 8:27:24 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Demographics is Destiny


2 posted on 06/05/2023 8:27:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Demography is destiny.


3 posted on 06/05/2023 8:29:54 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: dfwgator

The entire west coast is a rotting corpse.


4 posted on 06/05/2023 8:38:10 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: ChicagoConservative27
California may have been Republican, but I seriously wonder how truly “red” it was in a modern political context.

Ronald Reagan, for example, signed one of the most liberal state abortion laws in the country when he was governor of California — before Roe v. Wade.

5 posted on 06/05/2023 8:39:36 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We can blame Reagan, Laxalt, many other Republicans including B1 Bob, who all became squishy on border control. They rewarded millions of illegals with citizenship.


6 posted on 06/05/2023 8:40:28 AM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her lbegs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: alstewartfan

Cheap Labor Uber Alles!


7 posted on 06/05/2023 8:40:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I used to say that here from day one was mostly shouted down as racist

Not as much now


8 posted on 06/05/2023 8:41:35 AM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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To: Alberta's Child

And the Mulford act, the strictest gun-control in the country at the time.

But still, I blame the Bushes. They THREW open the borders; that combined with the loathsome coward Republicans who didn’t give a damn when they could have done something and then turn around and whine like little girls that California is now ‘commie’ when it was THEIR doing. The GOP sold California out and then pissed (and are still pissing) on the problem they created.


9 posted on 06/05/2023 8:42:24 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (There was enough government in 1789)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

De Tocqueville warned about politicians buying votes with taxpayer money. That’s exactly what Clinton did in California and it’s continuing to this day.


10 posted on 06/05/2023 8:44:47 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Alberta's Child

California was the new world then

Bright and shiny

Idealized

Hollywood and the Bay Area

It had a lot to offer

When I’m in LA it’s not how Latino it is

Isn’t everywhere now?

It’s how oriental it is?

Give me a better word for Koreans Chinese Japanese etc in east Asia and I’ll use it


11 posted on 06/05/2023 8:44:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (Technology is not by default an improvement )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ILLEGALS changed it.....they brought their CRAPHOLE COUNTRY WAYS to Gorgeous California!


12 posted on 06/05/2023 8:56:25 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: All

The answer is simple “open borders”


13 posted on 06/05/2023 8:57:15 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: wardaddy

The Orientals seem to be great neighbors, workers, and entrepreneurs, and are pretty darn law-abiding. The ones from India don’t seem to assimilate as well as my Chinese and Korean friends, but damn, you hire a Korean and they show up, do the job, and tend to start preparing for the job above them on day 1.


14 posted on 06/05/2023 8:57:26 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (There was enough government in 1789)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They changed the demographics of the state. It’s not as complicated as this article makes it out to be.

Millions upon millions of third-world immigrants tipped the vote left.


15 posted on 06/05/2023 9:00:08 AM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The techies attracted the well indoctrinated college graduates. And Hollywierd attracted the rest of the new-Blue staters.


16 posted on 06/05/2023 9:06:35 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If CA turned blue, why does Deep State need to steal its elections...? 🤔


17 posted on 06/05/2023 9:07:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Alberta's Child

California hasn’t been solidly Republican since the 20’s. It never again voted more than 58% for a GOP Presidential candidate after 1928. Even Nixon, a native son, barely got 55% in his landslide victory in 1972. Reagan got 57.5% in 1984, about 1.3% less than his nationwide total.


18 posted on 06/05/2023 9:13:48 AM PDT by princeofdarkness
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Don't underestimate those filthy, wastes-of-oxygen, degenerate hippies. They came for a "revolution" and when they realized they were going to have to work for a living (the then-Californian generous citizens were tired of handing out freebies), went into politics or teaching. The only two fields custom made for lazy, stupid fools.

That demographic killed san fran and LA. Then they migrated north to destroy Oregon and Washington.

I hate dope smokers. I hate hippies. And liberTARDians.

19 posted on 06/05/2023 9:45:39 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: LouAvul
Cartman is Right!


20 posted on 06/05/2023 9:48:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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