Posted on 02/15/2012 8:57:35 PM PST by Pelham
California is in the middle of a far-reaching demographic shift: Hispanics, who already constitute a majority of the state’s schoolchildren, will be a majority of its workforce and of its population in a few decades. This is an even more momentous development than it seems. Unless Hispanics’ upward mobility improves, the state risks becoming more polarized economically and more reliant on a large government safety net. And as California goes, so goes the nation, whose own Hispanic population shift is just a generation or two behind.
The scale and speed of the Golden State’s ethnic transformation are unprecedented. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the most Anglo-Saxon of the nation’s ten largest cities; today, Latinos make up nearly half of the county’s residents and one-third of its voting-age population. A full 55 percent of Los Angeles County’s child population has immigrant parents. California’s schools have the nation’s largest concentration of “English learners,” students from homes where a language other than English is regularly spoken. From 2000 to 2010, the state’s Hispanic population grew 28 percent, to reach 37.6 percent of all residents, almost equal to the shrinking white population’s 40 percent. Nearly half of all California births today are Hispanic. The signs of the change are everywhere—from the commercial strips throughout the state catering to Spanish-speaking customers, to the flea markets and illegal vendors in such areas as MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, to the growing reach of the Spanish-language media.
The poor Mexican immigrants who have fueled the transformation—84 percent of the state’s Hispanics have Mexican origins—bring an admirable work ethic and a respect for authority too often lacking in America’s native-born population. Many of their children and grandchildren have started thriving businesses and assumed positions of civic and economic leadership. But a sizable portion of Mexican....
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“Republican political consultants routinely argue that California’s Hispanics were driven from their natural Republican home by a 1994 voter initiative—backed by then-governor Pete Wilson, a Republican—denying most government benefits to illegal aliens. But it would be almost impossible today to find a Hispanic immigrant who has even heard of Proposition 187. Jim Tolle, pastor of one of the largest Hispanic churches in Southern California, La Iglesia En El Camino, says that his congregation knows nothing about Prop. 187.
“The fact is that Hispanic skepticism toward the Republican Party derives as much from its perceived economic biases as from Republicans’ opposition to illegal immigration and amnesty. A March 2011 poll by Moore Information asked California’s Latino voters why they had an unfavorable view of the Republican Party. The two top reasons were that the party favored only the rich and that Republicans were selfish and out for themselves; Republican positions on immigration law were cited less often.”
As long as MSM and the communist public schools have total control over ideas given to the children, this will never change.
We need to take over the school system (what we have is unconstitutional anyways)-—get rid of the communist textbooks—educate your own children. The Truth does not get to the Hispanics-—they are used—always have—communists are evil....always have been and they are destroying the Hispanic family as they are doing to all other groups.
We need to educate the Hispanic population with the Truth. Catholic Church has got to get rid of their communist/Satanic priests/nuns and that would be a help. Education is the most important and our schools are designed for mass indoctrination into Marxist ideology. It is our fault—allowing a DOE and communist/CAIR textbooks to indoctrinate and destroy the minds of children—now they are forcing immorality—homosexuality to corrupt their morals and reject Christianity. It will get uglier if we don’t get control of the schools and restore Classical education and teach morality-—Right and Wrong.
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what are u...A Steve Sailer racist you..lol
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California has become Mexico. Immigrants refuse to assimilate; they view Mexican culture as superior to American culture and act accordingly. Why on Earth would anyone expect improvement? You fill California with unassimilated Mexicans and California becomes Mexico. Period.
‘And as California goes, so goes the nation’
Baloney.
California is headed into the abyss by itself.
Well said. I live right in the middle of it and have watched my own city be transformed from American suburbia into a colony of Mexico. It happened very quickly once it started.
“California is headed into the abyss by itself.”
Believe that at your own peril.
Yeah, what was with that clown posting the smear job on poor old Peter Brimelow?
I wonder if that poster is friends with that goofy Texas doctor who routinely posts SPLC junk?
This trend (in CA) is nowhere, not even remotely in sight of reaching its maximum nor reversing. This will take decades to play out.
“What happened to California that turned it from Republican to Democrat? “
A number of things working together.
Flooding the state with poor campesinos back in the 1986 amnesty worked its magic. They gained the right to vote 10 years later, and surprise, surprise, they like to vote for the party that promises a lot of free stuff.
The Silicon Valley has a population opposite that of poor campesinos, but they like to vote Left.
Losing the aerospace industry to other states hurt, too. Those defense engineers were once a backbone of Orange County’s conservative base.
I posted the answer in post 12, the Protestants got outnumbered, they are still voting as they always have, they just don’t have the percentages anymore.
I say, collect the DNA of children on welfare and compare it to that of anyone arrested. That compassionate Mexican would sing a different tune if he had to own up to fathering children out of wedlock. Pay for that child’s upbringing.
Collecting the DNA would also convict those men that got underage girls pregnant.
If the Mexican had the same fear of the IRS as Americans do, it would lead to self-deportation.
If the Mexican had the same fear of driving without a license as Americans do, it would lead to self-deportation.
How foolish is it of you people claiming it is a California thing when Obama is trying to overturn Alabama’s laws, Georgia’s and Arizona’s.
We are the UNITED States and you people have enabled a foreign country to take over California.
“The two top reasons were that the party favored only the rich and that Republicans were selfish and out for themselves; Republican positions on immigration law were cited less often.”
The Republican Party serves the interests of Wall Street over the middle class. This was proved in the fall of 2008 when George W. Bush and his Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson chose to have the United States Treasury bail out the big banks instead of having the banks go through the bankruptcy process.
Through the 1990’s and 2000’s the Republican Party represented the interests of big multinational corporations, facilitating the ruinous trade and weak dollar policies which encouraged the movement of the US manufacturing base to other countries. These policies enriched the super wealthy and decimated the middle class. As a consequence real wages in the US have been flat to declining for two decades. For the first time in US history, middle class parents can expect their children to have a lower standard of living than they enjoyed.
Since the Republican takeover of the House in 2010 we’ve seen the Tea Party brought in line by the party establishment. We’ve also seen the establishment do everything it can to make Romney, the poster boy for elite crony capitalism, the nominee in 2012.
Not only Hispanics but all voters should be skeptical about the Republican Party for its economic biases. The Republican Party is all about advancing the interests of Wall Street and multinational corporations. Watch their behavior on Obamacare. They talk about eliminating Obamacare but what have they done? Boehner agreed early on with the White House to exclude Obamacare from budget cuts. Why? Because large corporations want the government to take over healthcare so corporations can realize huge savings by no longer funding employee health care benefits. This is not unlike corporations dropping defined benefit pension plans in the 1990’s and 2000’s.
I’ve voted Republican for 40 years. Except during the Reagan years I’ve been consistently disappointed as the Republican Party consistently votes to continue and expand the socialist welfare state (remember George Bush’s “no child left behind”) while embracing crony capitalism while ignoring the middle class.
Thanks Pelham.
When I took my wife to CA for the first time (LA) she commented on just how horrible the road conditions were. It was like they stopped quality maintenance and left the roads to decay. I know they'reshort on money, but the transformation was severe from what I remembered on previous trips.
And my wife was comparing those roads to those in Bogota...
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