{"id":12063,"date":"2019-11-15T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:04:16","slug":"what-happened-to-california-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-happened-to-california-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to California Republicans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California\u2019s 53 congressional seats are held by Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1994, then-governor Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187, which denied state social services to undocumented immigrants. The spin goes that it backfired and alienated the Hispanic community, and thus marked the road to Republican perdition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not quite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prop 187 passed with 59 percent support. Wilson\u2019s endorsement of the bill helped its passage, and his support of it aided his landslide 1994 reelection. Among minority voters, 52 percent of Asian and African-American voters supported Proposition 187. Some 27 percent of Latinos voted for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/11\/california-progressive-politics-residents-tiring-one-party-rule\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican officeholder? California also has a Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. Only seven of California\u2019s 53 congressional seats are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-38z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12067,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-the-california-endangered-species-no-one-can-save-will-it-ever-return\/","url_meta":{"origin":12063,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: The California endangered species no one can save \u2013 Will it ever return?","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. 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For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Conservatives&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Conservatives","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/conservatives\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1211,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-obama-rope-a-dope\/","url_meta":{"origin":12063,"position":5},"title":"The Obama Rope-a-dope","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After 2010, will he be Carter or Clinton? That is the ongoing parlor game now played among pundits over how President Obama will react to a probable shellacking of the Democrats in midterm elections next month. 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