Well, that’s the minority vote, especially Hispanics. They’re a strange bunch. Ostensibly Catholic, they’re against gay marriage, but like them some welfare.
Regardless, even with more Hispanics in California, and with the voting carte blanche they’ve been gifted, such a proposition would lose in a landslide today… in the unlikely event it ever found its way onto the ballot.
Whether or not anyone’s votes out there are actually being counted anymore is another matter. I suspect the Grey Davis recall and Prop 8 vote were the last hurrahs for the people of California having a say about anything on election day.
Don’t forget this was the same state to give us governor Ronald Reagan and Senator Richard Nixon not that long ago. It really underscores the significance of the illegal immigration combined with the radical spiral into leftist depravity in several locations there.
That, and at the end of the day, the fake left/right distinction isn’t terribly helpful; hasn’t been for a while.
Yup. The older I get the more I realize that truly the last good president we had was Dwight Eisenhower. Reagan gave amnesty, which set the stage for everything we’re going through now, he signed the first legislation to shield big pharma from lawsuits, he refused to cut spending, as even when we had record revenues he still spent more, and on and on.
The three big Reagan tragedies were Amnesty, Pharma immunity, and No Fault divorce. And I’m now to the point where I wonder if just those three errors outweigh all the good he did.
The only good I think he did was be optimistic. But he basically bankrupted the USA to beat the Soviets, opened the door to a mass invasion, made children sicker , etc.
I will say I liked him far more than Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump. I’m neutral on the first Bush.
I’m beginning to think more and more in Barnhardt.
Maybe this shining city upon a hill was always built on a lie.
Jimmy Carter did some good things after his presidency but he was a horrible, destructive president. Double digit inflation and unemployment were daily facts of life from 1977-1981. The government got bigger and badder (Dept of Education), state-endorsed feminism destroyed families and babies lives, and American culture started to rot fast with an avalanche of pornography and no-enforcement of morality laws. Jimmy Carter, the “southern Baptist, Sunday school teacher” enabled all of this and more.
This map is interesting and a real shock to everyone who wasn’t born yet or wasn’t interested in politics st the time. The southern states were historically democrat. Same for the industrial belt states. What turned them red? The policies of Jimmy Carter. California and the left coast, New England and New Jersey were historically republican, what turned them solid blue? Social engineering, especially third world immigration. The election results of 1981, 1984 and 1988 showed a solid red country. Then came the sinister, Masonic, Bush and Clinton regimes, followed by Barack Hussein Obama to cap it all off.
I would add that Democrat is historically the party of racism & racists.
From 1963 on, Democrats made their policies of dependence & control for minorities sound better, re-branding those policies as being fairness & liberation – somehow.
But the way in which Democrat racism (re-branded) spread out of the South after 1963, into the North & East, while the South became far less racist, is indeed remarkable.
I was born in 1975. I remember the 76 election well. Ha. However, I do remember when Reagan won in 80 because I thought he was the oldest man I had ever seen. And then I remember the following spring when Reagan was shot. I came home from kindergarten (can you believe I was a 5 year old kid who took the bus and walked from the bus stop home from school?) and mom was in a rocking chair watching the news, crying. I remember watching the coverage of Reagan being shot with her.
There’s a lot to this map. One thing that really sticks out is that New York had 41 electoral votes, while Florida had 17. Now, those two states still have the same amount of collective clout, but Florida now has a 30-28 advantage. There are the states that have been forever changed by migration from places like New York and Massachusetts, such as New Hampshire and Vermont. I was born in 1980, so I don’t remember Carter’s presidency, but looking at some of his speeches, he had absolutely no charisma. He was clearly elitist. He could only have beaten someone like Gerald Ford. It’s hard to understand how as late as the middle of 1980 the media still thought he had a good shot at being re-elected. He tried to fashion himself as being some sort of moral leader, but, if the president ever could have pulled that off, by the late 20th century, those days were long over. America needs the Church, with courageous bishops in order to have strong moral leadership.
What’s astonishing is that California used to be Republican.
What blows me away is the fact that California voted against “gay marriage” (no such thing) in 2008, when Obama won the state in a landslide.
Well, that’s the minority vote, especially Hispanics. They’re a strange bunch. Ostensibly Catholic, they’re against gay marriage, but like them some welfare.
Mormons, too, if I recall correctly.
Regardless, even with more Hispanics in California, and with the voting carte blanche they’ve been gifted, such a proposition would lose in a landslide today… in the unlikely event it ever found its way onto the ballot.
Whether or not anyone’s votes out there are actually being counted anymore is another matter. I suspect the Grey Davis recall and Prop 8 vote were the last hurrahs for the people of California having a say about anything on election day.
Don’t forget this was the same state to give us governor Ronald Reagan and Senator Richard Nixon not that long ago. It really underscores the significance of the illegal immigration combined with the radical spiral into leftist depravity in several locations there.
That, and at the end of the day, the fake left/right distinction isn’t terribly helpful; hasn’t been for a while.
It was Reagan himself who turned CA hopelessly blue with Amnesty in 1986… the biggest disaster of his presidency.
Yup. The older I get the more I realize that truly the last good president we had was Dwight Eisenhower. Reagan gave amnesty, which set the stage for everything we’re going through now, he signed the first legislation to shield big pharma from lawsuits, he refused to cut spending, as even when we had record revenues he still spent more, and on and on.
The three big Reagan tragedies were Amnesty, Pharma immunity, and No Fault divorce. And I’m now to the point where I wonder if just those three errors outweigh all the good he did.
The only good I think he did was be optimistic. But he basically bankrupted the USA to beat the Soviets, opened the door to a mass invasion, made children sicker , etc.
I will say I liked him far more than Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump. I’m neutral on the first Bush.
I’m beginning to think more and more in Barnhardt.
Maybe this shining city upon a hill was always built on a lie.
Jimmy Carter did some good things after his presidency but he was a horrible, destructive president. Double digit inflation and unemployment were daily facts of life from 1977-1981. The government got bigger and badder (Dept of Education), state-endorsed feminism destroyed families and babies lives, and American culture started to rot fast with an avalanche of pornography and no-enforcement of morality laws. Jimmy Carter, the “southern Baptist, Sunday school teacher” enabled all of this and more.
This map is interesting and a real shock to everyone who wasn’t born yet or wasn’t interested in politics st the time. The southern states were historically democrat. Same for the industrial belt states. What turned them red? The policies of Jimmy Carter. California and the left coast, New England and New Jersey were historically republican, what turned them solid blue? Social engineering, especially third world immigration. The election results of 1981, 1984 and 1988 showed a solid red country. Then came the sinister, Masonic, Bush and Clinton regimes, followed by Barack Hussein Obama to cap it all off.
Fair.
I would add that Democrat is historically the party of racism & racists.
From 1963 on, Democrats made their policies of dependence & control for minorities sound better, re-branding those policies as being fairness & liberation – somehow.
But the way in which Democrat racism (re-branded) spread out of the South after 1963, into the North & East, while the South became far less racist, is indeed remarkable.
I was born in 1975. I remember the 76 election well. Ha. However, I do remember when Reagan won in 80 because I thought he was the oldest man I had ever seen. And then I remember the following spring when Reagan was shot. I came home from kindergarten (can you believe I was a 5 year old kid who took the bus and walked from the bus stop home from school?) and mom was in a rocking chair watching the news, crying. I remember watching the coverage of Reagan being shot with her.
There’s a lot to this map. One thing that really sticks out is that New York had 41 electoral votes, while Florida had 17. Now, those two states still have the same amount of collective clout, but Florida now has a 30-28 advantage. There are the states that have been forever changed by migration from places like New York and Massachusetts, such as New Hampshire and Vermont. I was born in 1980, so I don’t remember Carter’s presidency, but looking at some of his speeches, he had absolutely no charisma. He was clearly elitist. He could only have beaten someone like Gerald Ford. It’s hard to understand how as late as the middle of 1980 the media still thought he had a good shot at being re-elected. He tried to fashion himself as being some sort of moral leader, but, if the president ever could have pulled that off, by the late 20th century, those days were long over. America needs the Church, with courageous bishops in order to have strong moral leadership.