Heritage's Rector declared that "open borders are open ballot boxes...if you think that's a good idea, look at California"
February 20, 2010 4:02 pm ET
From Rector's February 20 CPAC appearance:
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Hey, Rectum -- er, Rector, just so you know, there are no "open" borders in California.
I know because I live 15 miles north of the San Ysidro Border Crossing, the most heavily-used international land border crossing in the world . . .
Moron
He lies, he lies, and he know he lies....
"There were 48 majority-Hispanic counties nationally; the top 10 were all in Texas." - US Census Data released in 2009, which also indicates that Texas is 35.5% Hispanic; compare to California, at 36%.
Sure, they'd just claim that it's because Texas is conservative - but Texans don't only elect conservatives for state office (Ann Richards, for example, and Austin is a pretty liberal city). Not to mention there's New Mexico and Arizona, two fairly "purple" states with very large Hispanic populations (NM at 45% - highest in the country - and AZ at 29%), yet also face none of the problems that California does.
Of course, any rational person can see that the reason why California is doing so badly is that they have a broken political system; referendum-based government does not make for good governing. But it's hard to be rational when you're so transparently racist - particularly in believing that Hispanics will be poorer than white people for "generations."