California Eases Tone as Latinos Make Gains

? As Congress begins debating an overhaul of the immigration system, many in California sense that the country is just now beginning to go through the same evolution the state experienced over the last two decades. For a generation of Republicans, Gov. Pete Wilson?s barrages on the impact of immigration in the 1990s spoke to their uneasiness with the way the state was changing. Now many California Republicans point to that as the beginning of their downfall. ?

?The fact that the Republican Party got identified with anti-immigration has made things very difficult for them,? said Mark Baldassare, the president of the Public Policy Institute of California, which closely monitors shifts in the state. ?It is what is going on nationally now, but California started much earlier.? [cont.]

Jennifer Medina, New York Times

Source: http://opiniontoday.com/2013/02/16/california-eases-tone-as-latinos-make-gains/

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