Something I posted in another thread regarding California and how it is now going to take down a lot more of the nation:
California's population nearly doubled in two decades, most of the growth being foreign immigration, and children and grand children of those given amnesty by Republican President Ronald Reagan and was the primary population growth in the state.
The number of illegals is in the millions so the state population is actually millions higher than documented, although their children had in the US would all be considered citizens and may be part of the census.
You wouldn't have seen the cost of living in California shoot up so fast and the culture change causing the mass exodus that is now going to result in the legislative change of many other states they move to if the issue had been properly addressed.
California citizens even voted for ballot measure prop 187 in 1994 and passed it by a majority of the people and it would have stopped the problem by removing government funding of illegals and further criminalizing the hire of illegal labor. Yet California was then prevented by a federal judge from implementing any of it, and then the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
So California wanted and tried to stop the issue when they could see they had a short window left before the demographics skewed too far to ever correct it again. Yet was prevented from doing so by the US government. That resulted in a massive population increase and a dramatic demographic shift as a result of the federal government blocking the State from dealing with the issue while simultaneously failing to deal with it themselves.
The US federal government also sets the policies on legal immigration and swamps California with Asian immigrants as fast as businesses can ask for them.
The state is being given and sold to a foreign population.
Do a quick look at the numbers, here is
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/immigrants-in-california
In 2015, 10.7 million immigrants (
foreign-
born individuals) comprised 27.3 percent of the
population. ... In 2016, 9.3 million people in
California(23.8 percent of the state's
population) were native-
born Americans who had at least one
immigrant parent.
27.3+23.8 =
51.1%
(The children typically favor policies that would not have prevented their parents from coming and vote very predictably.)
The number leaving the state is higher than it appears because there is actually so many new foreigners coming into the state replacing people as they leave that even with a net loss the percent of the population leaving is lower than the actual percent of prior residents leaving.
(Most immigration now is from Asia, and Asian Americans are actually the largest demographic in favor of more gun restrictions. Also on the west coast British Columbia is now over a third Asian with much more permissive legal immigration policies. And there is more people in Asia that want to come to the USA than anywhere else in the world, with overcrowded India and China accounting for over a third of the world's population alone.)
You let so many come in they replaced rather than assimilated, and you prevented the state or the citizens from doing what they could about it. It wasn't California that failed, it was the US government that failed California and let California be conquered by a foreign invasion that has since totally changed the culture and demographics and now number such a high percent of the voters that they vote to allow it to worsen.
Outside of San Francisco and Hollywood California was actually quite conservative until that demographic shift and had some of the best self defense laws in the country.
