I remember when cali was full on a red state. I lived there.
“I remember when cali was full on a red state. I lived there”
You have a long memory....
I moved here in 1966. I first began to notice a change in SoCal in the ‘70s. We of course got the refugees from Vietnam when the Communists overran the South in 1975.
Then got a whole lot of Iranians when Khomeini drove the Shah out. And in the 1980s you could see a big increase in illegals from Mexico.
Reagan’s amnesty was actually followed by a couple of years of noticeable drop in he number of illegals- they thought he was going to enforce the prohibitions that were part of the law. But Bush 41 put an end to that fear, the illegals soon realized he wasn’t going to enforce the border at all.
Clinton may actually have been slightly better on deportation than Bush 41, but not by much. It was in 1994 that grassroots California fought back by passing Prop 187, while being opposed by No Borders hacks in the national GOP- namely Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and the then Governor of Texas, GW Bush.
Then GW Bush got his chance as President and tried to ram amnesty through, doing nothing to deport the millions of illegals here in California, and in fact leaving that army for Obama to further exploit.
It should come as no surprise that this state is now a disaster. It will probably get even worse.