Now you are not thinking. Yes it was the federal level that helped create the mess but it was the California voters that gave people that are not here legally free stuff which enticed them to come in waves.
That isn’t true, but illegals don’t vote anyway so that isn’t what made the California electorate become a solid blue state. Texas has about the same percentage of illegals as California.
Look at how the vote breaks down and look at more than a 100 years of American elections, Catholics vote democrat just as they did in 2008, and California is almost a third Catholic today.
Look at the voting results in post 117. Protestants vote republican and pro-life in California, Catholics don’t.