(1995)<p>One interesting historical tidbit, the election the previous year, 1994, and the anti-immigrant focus that is mentioned:<p>> In the recent elections for governor in California, the Republican candidate won through a vicious anti-immigrant campaign. Nationally, the triumph of Gingrich's neoliberals in the legislative elections was based on the mobilizations of "angry white males" against the supposed threat from black welfare scroungers, immigrants from Mexico and other uppity minorities.<p>Is often credited with turning California democratic after being fairly reliably Republican for decades. Here's a libertarian source that supports that theory:<p><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/proposition-187-turned-california-blue" rel="nofollow">https://www.cato.org/blog/proposition-187-turned-california-...</a><p>> The other theory is that Republican support for anti‐ immigrant ballot initiatives and candidates ruined the GOP brand in the eyes of immigrants, their children, and whites who were turned off by the nativist appeals – driving all of them into the arms of the Democrats who were pro‐ immigration. More evidence supports the second theory than the first.