"Over a quarter of the state’s population was not born in the United
States. A fifth lives below the poverty line. One-third of welfare
recipients in the United States live in California."

Professor Hanson is not known for hyperbole. Things seem to be getting ugly in the Golden State.

"One-third of welfare recipients live in California."

(A reasonable question:): Is there any reason we can't extend the Southern Wall across the Sierras...

"No moralist seems to worry that tens of thousands of Americans, among
them Mexican-American citizens in particular, depend on access to state
and federal dialysis centers and hospital emergency rooms, many of
which are now overwhelmed with non-citizen new patients."

Professor Hanson is way too kind to the "moralists." They knew exactly what they were doing. Nihilism is cute until...

Professor Hanson is sounding the alarm.

It is far past time to sound an alarm. The working Democrat people of Ca. are moving to red states like Texas and bringing their sick pro government voting with them. Now these defenseless states are turning a sick blue.

There seems to be no way to stop the sicko pests that are the democrat voters from destroying the country.

There are lots of guns in Texas. Never heard it called defenseless before.

Progressives are not aggressive. They snivel their way to power. Then enforce their sniveling upon you.

So did Colorado and New Mexico. Don't think the cock roaches won't ruin Tejas!

But the awake (as opposed to "woke") in Texas have something Colorado and New Mexico did not have.... Colorado and New Mexico to look at two decades on.

I'm seeing strong signs of the folks in Texas waking up. I KNOW their eyes are on Virginia of late....

Virginia's different though. It's the commie DC suburbs who caused the Dumbocrats to take power. Pretty much everyone in those jurisdictions feeds at the government trough one way or another. From welfare cases to government contractors and employees to government drones, they owe their existence to big government. What would one expect them to vote for.

The main difference between California and Northern Virginia, is that Northern Virginia has a much richer class of welfare recipients.

I'm not sure I'd go there! Geographically different, but pretty much the same wastes of air otherwise.

NC too. My beloved Tar Heel State will be blue by the next election cycle.

Guns will not particularly help against a flood of Democrat voters from blue state basket cases bringing anti American socialist values with them.

They could........

Yes there is it's called war! Time to invade and purge

And this is why people need to be on a watch list..

He has been sounding the alarm for several decades.Alas, wisdom is crying in the square and no one is listening

Oh, most heard and believed, but are powerless to do anything about it. They cannot kill them. They cannot kick them out of the state. They cannot keep them from voting. When enough of crap piles up the place starts to stink.

They've brought their garbage to Austin. Homeless everywhere and Kookifornians voting constantly for making TX just like the garbage dump they left.

Yeah, good luck with that. Most of them don't seem to be smart enough to make the connection.

"Professor Hanson is not known for hyperbole. "

Oh yes he is. It is, in fact, one of his great strengths that he can carry it off so well.

Professor Hanson is an accomplished historian. He's renowned as a "straight shooter," a man who "calls them as he see's them."

He now warns the nation of a calamity unfolding in the Golden State.

Professor Hanson has sounded the alarm. My first thought was extending the "Southern Wall" across the Sierras.

Any better suggestions?

Well said sir!

Professor Hanson is a partisan hack. Which is why nobody listens to him except you folks.

California has problems. So do states like Kansas and Mississippi and West Virginia, but he never writes about those.

Prof. Hanson lives in rural Ca. and damn well knows what he's talking about.

The left has all but destroyed that state and calling it's economics "medieval" is spot on.

The primaries were run like a banana republic in California! Wrong ballots sent to most people. I didn't receive my ballot in the mail and had to go though the paper work at my polling place just to cast my vote! My husband and many others received the wrong Democrat ballot. Little wonder why most Americans are leaving Ca in droves!

Why are you voting Democratic?

Probably because the Party has complete control, and if you don't vote in the Party, your vote doesn't count. Nobody cares how I vote in California because I'm not a member of the Party.

LIKE a banana republic? California IS a banana republic.

The GOP was well on its way to destroying Kansas but voters finally lost patience and threw Brownback out.

I hope Californians rise to the challenge and begin to solve some of the problems that one-party Democratic government has brought them. Perhaps they can vote in some moderate Republicans, like Charlie Baker whom I voted for here in Massachusetts. People from the right who aren’t simply a different kind of extremist, in other words.

A snowbird who dictates from Mass what Kansas will do.

Where am I dictating what Kansas should do? Citation please.

Seems to me like Kansan voters have decided all on their own.

Where do you come off hoping Kansas will turn blue? And you don't live there?

Where are you people getting this stuff? Where did I say that I hope or expect that Kansas will turn blue? Honestly, there’s an enormous ideologic distance between the kind of red that Brownback tried to turn the state and even the faintest shade of blue, LOL.

LOL the irony is that when Brownback cut taxes, Kansas City got the lion's share of benefits. They could have funded schools and medical care their own way, and even their own gun control, leaving the rest of the state alone.

But is not how the boosters of unitary government think. If Washington does not control everything on the name of equal rights, progressives cannot validate themselves. Virginia is learning this the hard way, and the crash will come sooner or later where you live. I don't think Boston has much in common with the rest of the state.

This is where I get this stuff

At least in Kansas you're supposed to be a citizen. In California, ANYBODY can vote through the Provisional Ballot system, and can even register to vote ON ELECTION DAY ITSELF. No I.D. required. Just sneak into the Sanctuary State and vote.

No, the GOP was not "destroying" Kansas.

I think it depends on your perspective. If you care about your state’s education system and its budget, yes, I think they were. Kansas voters seem to agree with me on that.

Nope.

The problem in Kansas was that welfare Democrats hate low taxes and hate people keeping more of their money.

The other problem is that the leftist state Supreme Court, led by the husband of imbecile Kathleen Sebelius, is imposing a leftist funding system on schools that is absolutely pathetic.

You have your perspective, Kansas voters have theirs. Seems like they won at the ballot box.

Not really.

Having grown up in Kansas, the state regularly swings back and forth in terms of governor. However, Republicans have and always will dominate the Legislature, to the point where the only question in the state is between conservative and squishy -- not moderate - Republicans.

Moreover, Kansas Democrats are all leftists and do everything in their power to sabotage and hamstring the state's economy. They hated the idea that people were being allowed to keep more of their own money and especially hated the fact that family farms weren't being taxed to give welfare to lazy voters in Democrat strongholds.

The funny part is that Ding Dong Laura Kelly, the New Yorker who is now governor, just admitted she's going to try to screw over Kansans in order to pay off overbloated pensions for Democrat constituency groups and raise their taxes.

That's typical. Democrats exist to siphon and steal from the productive and give it to the lazy. Not one single Democrat has a work ethic. They are all lazy and desperate moochers who want to steal from others.

Give me a break, MAGA is impossible without you folks siphoning off the two thirds of national GDP contributed by the blue states.

You sound so frustrated and angry. Try to have a nice day, and remember to wash your hands!

The way Americans are leaving California because it now stinks will keep California a blue stinking state!

Only complete morons vote D in CA. You must be a complete moron.

As a Californian, I think what she meant is they were given Democrat ballots when they are actually Republican. That is usually the way it goes, all over the country. I have yet to hear any Democrats complaining about receiving a Republican ballot.

The argument from false premises fallacy illustrated by someone who subsequently concludes his interlocutor "must be a complete moron".

Most Americans are looking for something between what California does and what Kansas does. They’re looking for a reasonable middle which, however, isn’t the sort of thing supported by extremist talking heads on either the left or the right. What it means, though, is that a lot of the folks leaving California are going to be importing some of their political views to red states and turning them a bit purple.

All you did was attack his character and point somewhere else. Out of sight out of mind? Doesn't matter who he is what he said is true.

“California has problems.”

I said that in my post, so no, I didn’t just point somewhere else.

The problem with Hanson is he has a partisan agenda, which is basically to repeat, over and over again, that the Democratic half of the electorate is the source of every problem in this country, probably including next week’s bad weather. Rational-minded ordinary people know that’s not true, which is why they basically tune people like him out.

An oddly incorrect response since he frequently calls out establishment Republicans for the same reasons. In California, which is a one party state, the problems are irrefutable and there are no Republicans to blame. Oh yes, I grew up ranching in the central valley and now live in Mill Valley so at least, unlike my neighbors, I know what both sides look like from the inside out. Feel free to dispute his facts in the future without juvenile obfuscation...