Please try to follow this post, California does not "turn everyone blue", the Catholic voter turned it blue. The reason that JFK and the left wanted to open the floodgates to Catholic immigration was to turn America to the left, they knew that their party had only lost the Catholic vote once in history, and that they needed to replace the Protestant vote. That is why we got the 1965 Immigration Act.
Here is the California of old, the California of Nixon and Reagan, and then, what it became.
Here is how the vote broke down in 2004, a year with a lot of pro-life issues on the ballot, do you notice that the old California voted the old way, but look at how the Catholics voted, even in a year when life issues were paramount.
This is happening in Texas as well, but to a slower degree because of the massive Evangelical strength there, not just in voting, but in demanding and voting for legislation, and demanding more conservative office holders, and their influence in simply creating a more conservative culture. 