Peter Brimelow • August 10, 2026
California was the heartland of the American Conservative Movement. It’s where Reagan came from. It’s what nominated Goldwater. But now it’s thought to be completely inaccessible to the Republican party. It’s totally controlled by Democrats. It’s a one-party state—basically because of immigration.
So the proportion of illegal immigrants in California is something like 10% of the population. It’s very substantial. And they of course all have anchor babies. And then of course there’s legal immigration into to California. Over a quarter of California’s population is now foreign-born.
So whites a.k.a. Americans in California now are driven to, I think somewhere around 32-34% of the population is white.
But I have to say, though, that the voting age population is still much whiter. However, it doesn’t matter because one of the characteristics of the Republican Party is that it’s totally afraid to appeal to its own base.
The Republican party in California has never run state-wide on opposing immigration. Even Proposition 187, which was trying to withdraw state welfare subsidies and transfer payments from illegal immigrants and was ultimately sabotaged by a Federal judge, the Republican party ran away from it. It was passed by a pure grassroots movement and it was never taken up by the Republican party.
And the result of that is that there have been many state-wide elections in which the Republican Party has not achieved 50% of the white vote in California.
People don’t seem to know this. They think it’s entirely because of the immigrant vote. But it’s because the GOP didn’t rally its base.
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