Posted on 12/10/2014 8:21:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I Don’t know but would assume so.
It may be blue, but conservatives still outnumber liberals by a small amount. Most likely the California GOP is a sellout like it is at the federal level, ignoring conservatives and anyone else calling for smaller government.
Nah, thats not disheartening. Whats really disheartening is when they move to another state and screw that one up too.
California - America’a canary.
We left California for Wyoming because of AB 32 which would have required my husband to replace all of his perfectly good construction equipment with "green" equipment. He laid off about 80 people and moved everything to Wyoming. We had one hard year and then he started getting contracts in the oil boom and we've been fine ever since.
That is as stupid an article on California politics as the ones from Salon.
From the Eighties on Conservatives left the state for lower taxed and more socially conservative pasture.
The concept of “tax flight” carried out on a large scale.
Just went down to California for the first time in a decade. Took a train trip and the place looks like a dump from north to south except for places like Santa Barbara. It was scary.
You’re right. The GOP needs to adopt a right of center populist position.
California is more of an albatross than a canary.
It’s all those illegal Mexicans making it back into Mexico. There are areas in my small city where not a word of English is spoken, the signs are all in Spanish, and when you drive down the street you would swear you are in Mexico.
Oh, that and abject cowardice on the part of GOP.
And, CA has always been of the small (l)ibertarian bent...like most of the Western States.
I know a bunch of folks will argue that, but I say come see for yourself. Fiscal Conservatives are everywhere. Social Conservatives are a small portion of the population.
There are many who say that cannot be...that Conservative is Conservative.
But if you put up a real fiscal conservative they will carry the State in all statewide elections...but if you put up a Social Conservative, they will lose miserably in any/all statewide elections.
Same thing with Florida where all the NE libs come to avoid the death tax...
When Proposition 187 was on the ballot, its opponents were out on street corners, freeway bridges, etc. waving Mexican flags. That tactic backfired. Two of my loved ones, lifelong hard-core liberal Democrats, voted for 187 because of the Mexican flags.
Do you live in central Cali?
The area around Salinas looks like Tiajuana.
Oh ya, I know exactly what youre saying, not so many Kommiefornians here but plenty of Ma$$holes.
fairly accurate observations IMO.
What happened was they became democrat lite.
Congrats. I wish my wife and I could tolerate the weather in Texas, otherwise we would do the same in a year or two. We actually could easily afford to do it now, but we're waiting until our only child, a recent college graduate, finds employment.
Yeah...and a lot of good it did us, voting for Proposition 187. If that had been allowed to stand, we might have been able to save California.
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