We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...

Proposition 187 and battles over illegal immigration are rapidly ceasing ... which now seems like a lost opportunity of the ...

everyone's looked back at Prop 187 and said that was what killed the Republican Party here in California," Kousser told NBC 7. At the news conference, DeMaio denied his ad was controversial.

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I asked if we could be seeing a national version of what happened in California after Proposition 187, 1994's aggressively anti-immigrant measure pushed by then-Gov. Pete Wilson. Prop 187 ...

After this shift, California became the reliably blue state it continues to be today. Researchers call it the “ Prop 187 effect.” But nationally Republicans don’t seem to have learned their ...

A pro-immigration march in San Diego during the first Trump administration. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) California has the nation’s largest population of undocumented ...

(“Ghost of Prop. 187 rises as Trump ascends”; Forum, July 17) We asked readers: How have you seen the Republican Party in California change from the 1980s to today? From the dominant political ...