“Sorry but open borders and turning kali into a brown and yellow state is what did it in”
When we fought back against the illegal alien invasion with Prop 187 in 1994, George Bush junior flew out here to join Mexico in opposing us. Jack Kemp and Bill Bennett did the same.
For years we had to listen to half wits in the national GOP preach to us about the glories of immigration, illegal as well as legal. Everyone who came here was going to be “a conservative” according to these geniuses.
Bush junior, the sterling example of the Make America Mexico Republicans, tried his damnedest to give the illegals another amnesty, but his time the Xenophobic Nativist Racists won. And yes those are terms that the Bushies called us, even here at FR.
The idea that illegals are what transformed California politics is misguided however. Legal immigrants played a far bigger role. There are more legals than illegals. They vote, and they routinely vote left of the remaining minority of American natives.
Prop 187? Where we won the election big, and the state along with their federal co-conspirators declared the election we just won to be, “illegal” and then they burned our ballots. That’s how they roll.
187 would have put a stop to tax paid services for illegals among others things. The results of that government intrusion and overreach back in 1994 can be seen from coast to coast, in your face, every town and city. Some of us told the country what was coming, few paid attention.