According to the Congressional Research Service the 1983 projection for population growth in California showed a 4 seat congressional gain. When the 1990 census was taken California gained 7 congressional seats.
This Clinton/Sweeney illegal alien amnesty plan will only skew things even more towards banana republic style politics in the USA.
Btw, your characterization of "non-white" voters is a pretty broad brush--particularly--in light of the growing popularity of the California/Texas style penal systems.
Tom Lehman
Nathan Newman wrote:
> >On Behalf Of Tom Lehman
> >
> > What makes you think that because someone is a Latino, that makes
> > them a labor
> > left Democrat voter? Or even a voter at all?
>
> Well, the politics are somewhat different state to state, with more
> traditional, often more conservative Hispanics (older more heavily Spanish
> blood) in Texas and New Mexico, but in California, latinos doubled their
> voting rates between 1994 and 1998 with overall non-white voters going from
> 20% of the voting population to 40% of the voting population.
>
> As to being prolabor, latinos have been extremely solid labor votes. In
> 1998, latinos voted overwhelmingly against the anti-labor Prop 226
> ("paycheck protection'); in fact, they voted against in higher numbers than
> their votes against the anti-bilingual education initiative on the same
> ballot. The speaker of the California state assembly is latino and a former
> labor official, so the links between the new latino political establishment
> and labor unions are extremely tight in the state.
>
> > Btw, the INS hasn't been busting non-union building trades
> > contractors who use
> > illegal or under age illegal immigrants as scabs for some months now!
> > Clinton/Sweeney policy?
>
> The INS has been going through a full-scale review of their workplace raid
> policy, largely because of complaints that employers were using them to
> deport workers whenever unions began organizing. Instead of calling the
> INS, the unions should be calling the Labor Dept and hit them up under Fair
> Labor Standards Act. The whole thrust of the new AFL policy is to bust the
> employers, not the workers, immigrant or otherwise. We need to build labor
> solidarity across borders and busting workers here won't help that.
>
> -- Nathan Newman