Americans live there. Shoot, illegal immigrants live there, and I don’t want to see any of them hurt in a societal crash, either. But I cannot pretend that watching the state have a -3 or -4 Electoral Vote crash after the next Census wouldn’t appeal to me, and while Jerry Brown is merely the symptom of California’s problems he’s a fairly blatant one:
…if you look at California’s greatest achievements as a society, the Pat Brown legacy stands at the core. The California Aqueduct turned vast stretches of the Central Valley into one of the most productive farming regions in the world. The freeway system, now in often shocking disrepair, allowed for the construction of mass suburbia that offered millions a quality of life never experienced by previous generations. At the same time the development of energy resources—California still boasts the nation’s third-largest oil production—helped create a huge industrial base that included aerospace, semiconductors, and a host of specialized industries, from logistics to garment manufacturing.
In contrast, Jerry Brown has waged a kind of Oedipal struggle against his father’s legacy.
Tragically, Jerry Brown has succeeded. With the end result that California’s unstoppable Electoral vote juggernaut has stopped expanding, and will almost certainly contract after 2020*. Again, he’s not the only reason for this. But dear God but Californians have been making bad call in their gubernatorial choices lately.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*That’s not actually bad news for conservatives, at least in the first wave. A lot of the people who get out of Blue States while the getting is good end up being the smart voters later.
Of course, the CA Dems will try to ensure that those -3 or -4 seats mostly come out of the CA Rep delegation. It will be interesting to watch those “nonpartisan” boards they setup to handle redistricting bend over backwards to deliver.
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As to your * point, evidence Moe. Evidence.
They can’t do anything about the missing Electoral College votes at least.
I’ve heard a bunch of operatives from CO and NH say that in-migration itself didn’t actually hurt the local parties in the long term (NH particularly). Admittedly, the Presidential elections in either didn’t go our way, but this decade for us has been largely about getting our state parties back up and running anyway.
At this point, it’s a retreat, not a rout.
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People leaving Cali are doing so under their own power, and are choosing their destinations.. and they tend to be “makers” not “takers” on average.
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Once the collapse is a bit further underway, look for “Grapes of Wrath” to run backwards.. and for Okies to remember the lessons learned.
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Mew
The CA GOP will make sure that those members of the CA Rep delegation most affected are those icky conservatives.
So expect Hunter, Rohrbacher, McClintock, Issa perhaps, and others to lose their seats.
McCarthy will of course continue with a seat more Republican then Texas.
Those of us trapped downwind don’t want to see it burn, either.
But those living there seem bound and determined to go up in a blaze of glory.
It will make a nice HBO series, or maybe History Channel miniseries.
‘The Californians’
The Critics will love it.