The last blog made me think about how San Francisco became this perfidious swamp of evil. And how California became this craven home of Democrat venom.
Before 1958 California was the most healthy and vital state in America with the best public schools, the best highways and the least corruption. Before 1966 San Francisco had Republicans holding important elective offices. Today neither is true.
What was the change? I think part of it was proposition 7 in 1952 that began the process of eliminating our nonpartisan elections. The most vital consequence of this change began in 1961 with the election of Jesse Unruh as speaker of the Assembly. Jesse used his speakership power to force business contributions into Democrat Party coffers and slowly win elections for Democrats.
The biggest change has to have been demographics. For California it was clearly the immigration of Mexicans and Latinos to the Central Valley and their forced adoption of citizenship after the end of the bracero program in 1967 by my close friend Bob Gnaizda while working for California Rural Legal Assistance. Hispanic population went from 2 million in 1970 to 7 million in 1990; from 10% of the population to 25%.
There was always a steady migration from the East Coast to California especially to San Francisco. I think that San Francisco was finally swamped by Lefty New Yorkers and other East Coasters by 1996 who then had the votes to pass Prop A in 2002 which created district elections and gave the city a radical socialist Board of Supervisors.
The pernicious migration of East Coast Luddites has continued unabated from that time on, creating a perfect storm of radical Lefty malice, a cataclysm evil.