[WilliamofCarmichael]

California Prop 187 passed just shy of 60 percent and IIRC Prop 187 got the usual Republican share of votes about 30%. IIRC also a similar effort in Arizona got almost 50-percent Hispanic votes.

The rants against Trump are so much like the 1990s Republican establishment's raving against California's Prop 187 voters. Jeb Bush, Jack Kemp, and William Bennett were out here calling us stupid, bigots, xenophobes, purveyors of hate, and worse. They ordered the California Republican Party to reform itself.

Well it did and since Pete Wilson (re-elected and a big supporter of Prop 187 1994) there have been I believe two Republicans elected statewide and one of them is Schwarzenkennedy.

[Sivad]

Nailed it.
GW also opposed California’s 187.
Many Hispanics who have been here for
a few generations have assimilated to
the point where they understand the
opposition to illegal immigrants is not
motivated by racism.