I don’t think anyone that’s not here in urban Texas can understand how drastically the demographics have changed, with no end in sight. A lot of them aren’t native Californians, but they came from jobs in California and other states.
I grew up in southern California from the early 60’s, I moved there in ‘61. I have seen extreme demographic change. When I was young, California was very conservative and a safe place to live. But California attracted a very diverse, and not always self-sustaining element from other states which began to drag the state down. But it seems like the state took a nosedive after Regan’s amnesty