If you look at the election results, the problem with the GOP and California began in 1986, when the Democrat party got Ronald Reagan to agree to an amnesty of sorts in exchange for border security.
The amnesty happened.
The border security didn’t.
Republicans won California in 1984 by 16 points. (pre-amnesty)
AFTER AMNESTY:
Republicans won California in 1988 by 4 points. (the effect was seen drastically)
Republicans lost California in 1992 by 14 points; 1996 by 13 points; 2000 by 12 points; 2004 by 10 points; 2008 by 24 points; and 2012 by 23 points.
In other words, since amnesty was enacted in 1986, California was a Republican state ONCE...by four points.
Since then, the border has been overrun, and somehow California has been a double digit victory for Demon Rat presidential nominees.
Coincidence? Maybe, but I don’t think so.
Don’t forget what happened in 1994....Prop 187...It won big in CA but the fed working with their state insider associates burned the ballots and declared the election illegal.
Never forget.
In 1992 Ross Perot took almost 20% of the CA vote. In 1994, Governor Wilson, a Republican, ran on Prop 187 and won, but after that it was all over...
Some perspective: http://immigrationimpact.com/2014/11/07/20-years-later-california-still-feels-effects-anti-immigrant-measure/
By the way, I’m in favor of border control, solving the illegal issue, including sending many of them home, but I’m not anti-immigrant. Prop 187 was anti-immigrant, however, and it has had a lasting impact on the vote in California.
There are smarter ways to address the immigration problem, ways that don’t ensure that the GOP will become a permanent minority party (pun not intended.)