{"id":12067,"date":"2019-11-20T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T04:56:18","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-the-california-endangered-species-no-one-can-save-will-it-ever-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-the-california-endangered-species-no-one-can-save-will-it-ever-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: The California endangered species no one can save \u2013 Will it ever return?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News <\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\">officeholder<\/a>? 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-Gov. Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187, which denied state social services to undocumented immigrants. The spin goes that it backfired, alienated the Hispanic community and thus marked the road to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\/republicans\">Republican<\/a>&nbsp;perdition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\">quite<\/a>.<\/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>Liberal groups immediately sued in federal court. Just three days after the measure passed, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing Proposition 187 from going into effect. A month later, U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer issued a permanent injunction. Prop 187 never became law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson-california-republicans\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. So why is there currently not a single statewide Republican&nbsp;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 [&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-38D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12063,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-happened-to-california-republicans\/","url_meta":{"origin":12067,"position":0},"title":"What Happened to California Republicans?","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review From 1967 to 2019, Republicans controlled the California governorship for 31 of 52 years. 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The Romney loss was not comparable\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GOP&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GOP","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/politics\/conservativism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9832,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-polarization\/","url_meta":{"origin":12067,"position":3},"title":"California\u2019s Polarization","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Richard Sousa Monday, February 6, 2017 With all due respect, I believe my colleague Sam Abrams has it all wrong. He argues that when examining California voter registration data at the county level, the polarization along party lines and the partisanship in the state are not as deep as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Democrats&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Democrats","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/democrats\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12695,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-election-a-choice-between-rule-changing-and-respect-for-constitutional-norms\/","url_meta":{"origin":12067,"position":4},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Election a choice between rule-changing and respect for constitutional norms","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily Chronicle In traditional presidential campaigns, the two major parties offer contrasting ideas and policies. The Democratic and Republican candidates barnstorm the nation to make their cases. Not this year. Democratic nominee Joe Biden is more or less a virtual candidate, mostly communicating from home\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12214,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/neversanders\/","url_meta":{"origin":12067,"position":5},"title":"NeverSanders?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Almost everything the Democratic Left said about Donald Trump causing a Republican Party implosion proved untrue\u2014and yet is proving true this year of the Democrats. Trump\u2019s agenda, for the most part, was Reaganesque, with a few important exceptions\u2014closing the border and enforcing immigration law,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12068,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12067\/revisions\/12068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}