Demography is California’s destiny
Sacramento Bee,
by
Dan Walters
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
5/14/2019 5:59:59 AM
Who first declared that “demography is destiny” is uncertain, but that doesn’t detract from the aphorism’s validity—and what’s happening in California right now proves it. The state Department of Finance released one of its periodic reports on California population trends this month, revealing that while we’re very close to 40 million residents, growth has slowed to a snail’s pace. California added just 186,807 souls in 2018, the department’s demographers calculated, just a .47 percent gain, the slowest in recorded history and only a quarter of the state’s growth rate during the 1980s,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chance_232 5/14/2019 7:26:37 AM (No. 63860)
Here´s the unsaid takeaway..... people are leaving the state and being replace by illegal alliens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/14/2019 8:38:50 AM (No. 63868)
Left unchecked, liberalism will destroy everything it touches.......
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 5/14/2019 8:45:29 AM (No. 63861)
Must be all the p**p on the streets. No one wants to live in a sewer.
"California ... is rapidly graying."
Old liberal hippies still stuck in the 60s.
"A stagnant, aging population will generate fewer workers for the state’s economy, exacerbated by low academic gains in the state’s school system and high housing costs that discourage migration to California and push educated Californians to other states."
Wow, a liberal utopia and no one wants to live there. Who knew?
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California is not alone. Maryland will likely prove a minority-majority state with the 2020 Census. The political game is already underway as the Dem party´s fragments jockey for position as the old white guys die off (literally).
I fully expect the GOP to have a period of resurgence in the style of Republicrat Gov. Larry Hogan - a slightly lesser form of Dem liberalism with promises and occasional outcroppings of conservative rhetoric to keep the rubes in line.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/14/2019 10:29:27 AM (No. 63866)
Of the stated ´´186,807´´ souls added in 2018, I would speculate that 186,805 are illegal aliens! The other two are homeless, there for the free stuff.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/14/2019 10:30:15 AM (No. 63867)
Why would anyone want to live in a state that requires poop maps for major cities, has high taxes, poor services, promises electrical blackouts, selectively enforces laws against citizens, but lets illegals slide, and has huge homeless encampments it does nothing about? I expect the out-migration of California will accelerate in the future.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Axeman 5/14/2019 10:43:16 AM (No. 63864)
Language has failed when we have a minority-majority.
I know a lot of beautiful, healthy, intelligent young women who have remained childless into their late thirties. I see this as a decision they will not look back on favorably. And men who are not doing their best to step into fatherhood. California is in decline at this time.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/14/2019 11:07:59 AM (No. 63863)
"All of those trends have now reversed. We lose more people to other states than we gain"
The Godzilla-sized elephant in the room gets a one liner. All of those youngsters who worked there and paid those stratospherically high taxes are leaving. Retirees on Social Security can not make up the tax shortfall.
Decades of democrats in government have brought California to ruin and bankruptcy. Who in their right mind would have children there except for illegals? The rest of the animal kingdom is wise enough to have their young in safe and sane places.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
gramma b 5/14/2019 12:08:08 PM (No. 63865)
I am a baby boomer who was born and raised in California. It was wonderful back then. I left when I went to college and never returned. There is no way I would go back, and no way I would encourage any of my children or grandchildren to go there. I have one daughter who went there while her oldest child was in elementary school. She found one corner of the San Fernando Valley with a fine elementary school. But, staying there would have meant that her daughter would be forced into a junior high with high numbers of non-English speakers, meaning an
inevitable decline in the quality of her education. As the article states -- and as I as a former school board member know to be true -- demography is destiny. Especially in education. That daughter, too, has now left California for good.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 5/14/2019 3:40:23 PM (No. 63859)
Mexicans and other Central and South Americans taking over, with little education and no real cultural interest in education is their future.
Not a bright future, from where I sit....a California native living in the midwest, and who visits with some frequency and who would never consider living in the state again.
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