Mexifornia is promising if you’re from Mexico
Latino supremacist writer Gregory Rodriguez is mad at the “Pouty White People“, the white Anglo Californians who are mostly downbeat about the Golden State’s prospects. 57% of the Anglos believe California is going to be a worse place to live in 20 years from now, according to a recent poll from Public Policy Institute of California. That figure is 49% among blacks, 39% among Latinos, and 34% among Asians.
Rodriguez doesn’t much like the Anglos’ dour assessment. To him the Anglos are an aristocracy with a dated vision of California as a place where anyone can enjoy the American Dream of easily acheived middle-class living. The newcomers harbor no such hopes. To them, California is just another noisy, polluted, and traffic-snarled corner of the world, albeit one with higher wages and better health care (conveniently paid for by the loathsome “aristocrats”). The Anglos, who for many years have been but a shrinking minority of California’s population, know what has been lost and fear that even more will be. The newcomers only know what they have left behind. Compared to a profoundly failed state such as Mexico, America’s laughingstock, California cum Mexifornia, looks pretty good.
Tellingly, Rodriguez offers no reason for why Anglo Californians should feel differently about their state’s future. Indeed, his parting shot is a kind of “screw you” pronouncemet:
“California’s crumbling infrastructure can be rebuilt, and its broken education system can be repaired. But that’s not going to happen until we re-create the social contract that built postwar California. That contract must be founded on a shared vision of the future. If Anglo California is not willing to provide one, then at the very least it should make way for those who do.”
Well, Rodriguez, they are, as they have been for years. California will soon be all yours. Happy trails.
