How California turned from red to blue
Take a look at the history of red/blue politics in California, and you’ll see very graphically (in a literal sense) why Obama and company are willing to do just about anything to get more Hispanic people into the country and then give them a path to citizenship:
The Golden State has 12% of the country’s population and one third of its welfare recipients. California’s middle class is decimated. The growth of government services and regulation, together with downward pressure on wages, had the predictable outcome.
As the chart above shows, there was not a sudden population shift in California. The number of whites, who provided the bulk of the GOP vote, didn’t drop enough to explain the political outcome. Instead, there was a steady and significant increase in the legal and illegal immigrant population over several decades, a population which no amount of GOP outreach or sensitivity was going to turn into Burkeans.
That is how the Republican Party was destroyed in California, how the state plunged towards a third-world economic model, and why overall immigration needs to be reconsidered.
Big states like California and New York are now reliably blue. That makes it more and more difficult for Republicans to ever win the Electoral College. If Texas turns in the same way, it’s game over.
Things must change before we reach the tipping point. Perhaps we’ve reached it, and passed it, already.
“Things must change before we reach the tipping point. Perhaps we’ve reached it, and passed it, already.”
Stick a fork in, it’s done.
(I will continue to voice my perspective, albeit in a lost cause. Maybe my idea is that it’s part of lending that voice to an aggregate dissension, for the benefit of future generations.)
The next Reagan is coming and his name is Ted Cruz.
The real problem with politics is that it has become identity politics. That is why the Dems stress the “war on women” sham.
Here is a link to an article almost two years old, it explains a lot.
http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how-the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/
You are correct, once Texas turns the game is over. Officially.
“Things must change before we reach the tipping point. “
If enough liberal low-info voters get repeatedly mugged by reality, things might change, otherwise not a chance.
Ted Cruz is not as personable as Reagan was and, it was Reagan’s persona as the “happy warrior” that allowed the GOP establishment to accept him. Cruz is much more confrontative than Reagan. Which is not surprising given the current state of the nation. The RINO GOP establishment of today is absolutely committed to stopping its conservative base.
From JMJ’s very informative link;
That reminded me of this observation; “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.” Thomas Jefferson
Not even counting illegal immigrants, not even counting voter fraud… Texas state demographic trends indicate Texas turning blue somewhere around 2020. Hispanics are by far the fastest growing state demographic. High rates of birth ensure it will continue.
I have read that the Hispanic out of wedlock birth rate is 50%. Liberal plan right on track. Keep people separate, scared, poor and dependent and when you say “jump”, they say “how high.”
This article breaks my heart – as I grew up in California, and still have relatives there, including my aged surviving parent. I have memories of long road trips here and there, north and south, when I was stationed at Mather AFB in the early 1980s and would drive home to my parents’ house for holidays, going down along the 99, through that chain of farming towns – Lodi and Turlock, Madera and Modesto … (there was a wonderful restaurant in Madera which had the most wonderful home-made pies, and where all the old local raisin farmers used to gather … I read Victor Davis Hanson’s accounts of what has happened to agricultural California and I want to weep even more) … anyway, it was a wonderful place to grow up in, and my father took full advantage in taking is to the mountains, the deserts and the seashore. My parents were both born there, and remembered what it was like in the 1930s and 1940s.
I hate that it has become a place inimical to the middle-class, and to the independent small business owner. I hate that now it shows every indication of replicating Mexico – with a small and rich ruling class, living in gated estates, a tiny beleaguered middle class, and a huge and unruly, barely literate dependent class. This can’t endure. I wish that I could get my youngest brother to get out before it is too late, but his wife is a career public school teacher, so it is likely too late.
Texas turning blue … I would not be all that assured of that happening. Texas is, above all, cantankerous, opinionated, and about the only pools of stupid blue-staters are concentrated in Austin, and in Sheila Jackson Lee’s district in Houston.
In the words of a tea party volunteer that I knew a couple of years ago – “We surround them.”
I live in what I call a b-rated suburb: not particularly well to do, and not gated; the houses are small, generally, but almost entirely owner-residents. Only a few rentals – but racially pretty well mixed for Texas – about a third to a half Hispanic (to judge by the surnames) and maybe about 1/8th black, the rest Anglo. Also – near the various military bases in San Antonio, so a very strong element of veterans, which I think rates everything else. There aren’t but a handful of households in the ‘hood’ all that keen on the Dem party ideals … I would think that Hispanic in San Antonio eventually tracks more independent and conservative. Just my guess, though.
So yes, California looks and behaves just like the 3rd World. What does one expect, when the place is full of 3rd Worlders? Culture will always win out over law, political system, whatever else people were relying on to preserve the character of the state. And the character of the Nation, if Texas goes.
While that dooms the Republican Party, it will not mean political harmony among frolicking Democrats. Without the benighted white men to oppose, the various factions might turn on each other, or they might fight about where on the totalitarian continuum is the proper place. I wonder what it will be like. And when they run short on free stuff they will try for Canada.
Sgt. Mom: I am a huge VDH fan and you should check out his book, “Mexifornia.”
California is truly the Golden State and you hit the mark with your comment on the class structure and becoming Mexico.
VDH writes frequently re water issues and it appears to me that it is an unforced error driven by the greens. When they can’t get argula in SF, then maybe people will wake up.
“Texas turning blue … I would not be all that assured of that happening.” Sgt. Mom
Not to be a ‘Debby downer’ but:
“Every one of Texas’ major cities — Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio — voted Democratic in 2012, the second consecutive presidential election in which they’ve done so.” http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/red-state-blue-city-how-the-urban-rural-divide-is-splitting-america/265686/
“The state is fifty-five percent traditional minority. Thirty-eight percent is Hispanic, eleven percent is African-American and the rest is Asian-American, and two-thirds of all births are in a traditional minority family.” Texas Republican state chairman Steve Munisteri
50% of all births in Texas are Hispanic. 70% of Hispanics vote Democrat.
There’s your handwriting on the wall. Current demographic trends show Texas turning blue around 2020-2024.
There will always be white men to oppose. Even if they are only straw men. Look at the Jews, in the USA, 100 years ago…. We are all Jews now. The Protocols of the Anglo Elders.
But unlike the Jews, we gave it away and continue to give it away to the unworthies. That is the unforgivable sin.
If the GOP disappears overnight, little will change. Tipping point passed.
They’re already in Canada.
Don Carlos speaks the truth: “Tipping point passed.” Yes, we gave it away. Yes, unforgivable.
Tipping point? What are we? A top, a ship, a building?
Of course if you ask “Are we in decline?” no one, hardly, prefers to say no. Unless you are the elite or the very poor and uniformed and stupid and think the elite is you friend.
So, the elite is your friend, dear Republican, as long as they prevent progressive Supreme Court justices, which they really do not do.
The decline started and reached apogee with the elite Bushes and Clintons. And that’s all we’ve had for the last generation.
So, what can a new generation do?
Not game over. What happens when California goes into bankruptcy and the vote-buying scheme of the Dems falls apart because they ran out of other people’s money? The Gods of the Copybook Headings will not be mocked. Painful lesson, but it will stick. And the people will learn that they can’t get their everything from government.
“What happens when California goes into bankruptcy and the vote-buying scheme of the Dems falls apart because they ran out of other people’s money?”
At that point the Dem controlled federal government will step and the rest of us will begin to pay for the Californication…it’s too big to fail you know. Then other states will collapse and the dominoes will all begin to fall. However, I suspect that other issues will force the collapse of the US before the above scenario plays out.
Yes, it’s game over. We complain about our southern border, about Mexicans and Mexifornia and the demographic decline of the USA, the incarceration of the Marine on active duty in Tijuana for 4 mo now, but we never look at Mexico and its history?
When we fret about CA, we fret about it becoming Mexican. That is a bottomless rathole for most Mexicans, which is why they come north. Never mind the narcotraficantes, eh? Mexicanismo is going to turn the USA into Big Mexico. Not just for the Mexicans, but for the feministas and the greens and the muzzies, and the rest of us, the white little people. Just as in Mexico, there is room at the top for the elites.
My nom de plume was given me by a Mexican years and years ago. He lived in a walled multi-acre family compound and had about 50 security guards then. Not drugs, just ordinary businesses.
Which, by the way, is what Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are: compounds of the elites, with water instead of walls.
Mexico has been here a loong time, much longer than the USA.
We don’t have a USA to flee to. We have no other place.
It’s game over.
People who only learned about the Left recently, are easy to break given their brittle morale.
The grand scheme worked to the end — in Detroit.
When the money ran out, the keys were taken away.
This trend is that of Bourbon France: it will continue until the wallet busts out.
Then, everything the spendists consider sacred — gets zeroed out.
Without welfare, most of these recent illegal aliens will have no option but to flee back home.
1) They never picked up English.
2) They can’t earn their way.
3) They can’t even make ‘it’ illegally… being teenagers.
And so forth.