California as a Latino metaphor for the GOP
Trump has adopted at national level former state governor Wilson's approach on immigrants
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YOUNG American voters would find it hard to believe. But for much of the second part of the 20th century, California was regarded as a "red" or Republican state, and even a bit conservative in terms of its ideological orientation, with voters in the state casting their ballots for Republican presidential candidates from 1968 to 1988.
Hence two leading Republican figures who later went on to become US presidents had dominated the politics of the Golden State as well as of the GOP itself for years: Ronald Reagan served as governor of California for close to a decade. And Richard Nixon represented the state in the House of Representatives and as a senator, and later served as a vice-president under Republican president Dwight Eisenhower.
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