“Of course that’s not true, but then you’re in Texas so you wouldn’t know any better.”
Then, Einstein, tell us all how California turned from a Republican state (as late as 1995) to the BASKET CASE that it is today - IN ONE ELECTION.
I’ll be glad to liberate you from the shackles of ignorance.
California didn’t “turn from a Republican state (as late as 1995) to the BASKET CASE that it is today - IN ONE ELECTION” despite your belief in that fantasy.
California hasn’t been “a Republican state” since 1958. It has had Republican governors, including both Wilson and Schwarzenegger after 1995 (your ‘cutoff’ date), but the California legislature has been run by a Democratic majority for over 50 years, since before the time that Ronald Reagan was Governor. Only twice in that time has even one house of the legislature had a Republican majority, and that was by just 2 seats.
The increased Democratic vote after 1996 is very easy to understand, and it carries a message for the Open Borders wing of the GOP, not that they will ever learn from it. .
1986 was the year of Reagan’s Amnesty. Under that law the amnestied illegals were given the vote, to be effective 10 years after the amnesty. In 1996 a few million new Democrats were added to the voter rolls.
This is a lesson not lost on Obama and his ilk. Why members of the GOP insist on helping Obama and the Democrats move the country further Left by refusing to deport foreign nationals living here as a illegal aliens is a mystery known best to them, although the reason is amply explained in the nickname The Stupid Party.