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Trust me I live here and I know the average California voter and they are knuckle-heads in the extreme. It will take a generation to undo this damage and personally I believe California has a better chance of leaving the Union than turning conservative.

Just curiously, did the change for the worse politically in California come about rather suddenly in your estimation or was it more of a gradual erosion?

I ask because here in Texas, we've had much the same demographic shift experienced by California.

It's a function of immigration. That's why nothing has been done about immigration. The Democrats knew that the more immigrants that we have, the better their chances for victory. They completely outsmarted the Republicans in this area.

You see that it's very easy to take these immigrants (legal & illegal) and convert them to Democrats. The something for nothing concept is easily embraced by the less sophisticated types. Many of the immigrants come from countries where the government has a huge role in running things so it's a normal thing for them to expect something from government. Very few of these people have heard of Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, or Milton Friedman. They will OVERWHELMING VOTE LIBERAL by sheer instinct.

Don't listen to this garbage preached by the neo-cons about immigrants adding something to the culture or to our civilization. Total garbage. Yes a tiny amount of them make contributions, but as a whole we've lost far more than what we've gained. These immigrants didn't come to US because they wanted political freedom or a chance to participate in a free market economy of a democratic republic. They came for the "goodies" handed out by government. That's why so many states with high immigrant rates are in financial trouble.

No California is being transformed into a total welfare state because of this demographic change. I've been looking at the voting patterns of many areas. If you look at areas that have traditional population's that is those who have been in US for generations you will see Conservatives. If you look in districts with high rates of immigrants, like Nancy Pelosi's district you will see huge numbers of people who were not born or educated in the US.

Demographics is destiny.