When will California become a swing state again?

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It can't remain in the Democratic column forever.

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I'm wondering whatever happened to that insurgent Western Conservatism that sprang up between the '60's and the '80's, and how that dies out in places like California.

Take a look at the changes in California's demographics in the past 50 years. They're the same changes the whole country is likely to experience in the next 50.

You mean immigration?

Demographics aren't all of it though. It is heavily Democratic areas like the Bay Area where white progressives put the Democrats over the top. West LA is something like 70% White, and yet they have given the state and congress such illustrious people as Waxman, Brownley, the Lowenthals, and Harman. I think it has to do with the National GOP basically giving up on the state and allowing the Democrats to consolidate strength. 

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I'm not going to turn this into a gay marriage discussion, but remember that most Americans approved of segregation and were opposed to interracial marriages as well. Marriage is a right, not a privilege for heterosexuals.

Please, don't insult our intelligence by comparing gay marriage to race equality.  They are simply not related. 

Both are civil rights issues.

No they are not.

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It's pretty obvious that Republicans would rather just hope that California fails. They seem to be attacking Jerry Brown quite a bit, implying that he will cause the state to collapse, despite the fact that he's more fiscally conservative than them (note that fiscally conservative is a much misused term).

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But oh noes, Jerry Brown is an evil tax and spender.

Um no. Jerry Brown is another tax and spend progressive who even worse than Davis is basically owned by the various unions in the state. Plus the man is almost on the same level of Sharron Angle in craziness, he just doesn't make as many idiotic statements. The Democrats will fail like they did last time they held the governor's mansion, and be thrown out in 2014 or before then like they have in the past.