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 ...

To the editor: Reading Gustavo Arellano's column on living in a "Prop. 187 America" and seeing the ... language at Eagle Rock High School when California voters passed the measure to deny ...

Proposition 187 and battles over illegal immigration ... which now seems like a lost opportunity of the last generation. A bipartisan California Latino caucus could have focused on shared goals ...

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 ...

(“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 ...