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What I find breathtaking is someone who passes out insults about the state I live in or phrases like revisionism, yet utterly fails to refute anything I wrote with facts. Perhaps some people think I should accept unsubstantiated opinion as facts because they live in CA. I do not.

None of what you've posted substantiates the canard you've echoed that it was the backlash against #187 that led to the Gray Davis victory in '98. That's Leftist revisionism, echoed by excusemakers in the GOP who'd rather wring their hands than roll up their sleeves and deal with illegals.
That one event chronologically preceded another does not indicate causation. That you believe otherwise does not make your own opinion factually based.

That one event chronologically preceded another does not indicate causation.

One correlation need not indicate causation, but I offered several correlations. It is enough for me.

If an anti-immigration candidate ever does win...other than Wilson, the far right fringe will jump on that election as proof of their argument...as they did with Wilson. Only extreme hypocrisy explains why they will not own up to the anti-prop187 backlash. Unfortunately for the far right fringe my assertion, "an anti-immigration stance is a loser issue" is correct. Let me also mention Buchanan's defeats and John McCain's re-elections.