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2/4 The Changing Legislative landscape
Was it a better system in the 1950's? "it is in the public's interest for elected leaders to thrash out complicated issues without excessive scrutiny of the public or the press and without fear of losing the the next election" Why has it changed?
The newcomers are just as bright and perhaps more motivated to serve the public than the old...but the knowledge base in the Senate and Assembly cannont possible compete with the expertise in the executive branch and lobbying corps. So which is better?
2/2 Pastor
despite the presence of a moderate
Latino Democrat, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, competing to replace Davis,
Schwarzenegger was able to secure 31 percent of the Latino vote (more than the 18 percent he
secured of the African American vote, with the latter still remarkably high for a Republican in a
multi-candidate election).
The new mayor won over 60 percent of the overall vote, a
result helped along by a very strong 84 percent share of the Latino electorate – but what was
most striking was that Villaraigosa also garnered 50 percent of the white vote, 48 percent of the
Black vote, and 44 percent of the Asian vote.
Which coalition is the future of LA?
Essentially, the
changing racial landscape of California has made coalitions both more necessary and more
difficult, and triggered a new sort of "generation gap" – one in which the demography of the
older population in the state is very different than that of the younger population and hence
investments in the future have diminished.
How are they different? How do the affect politics?
Schrag suggests that older,
whiter, wealthier voters do not see their fate as tied to that of younger, minority, and poorer
future residents – and are therefore unwilling to tax themselves to pay for that future. Consistent
with Schrag’s hypothesis, public opinion data collected by the Public Policy Institute of
California suggests that willingness to invest equitably is highest among the youngest cohorts
and declines with age. For example, 62 percent of people ages 18 to 34 years said that low-
income and minority schools should get more money for facilities. Among people ages 35 to 54
years , the share responding this way was only 54 percent and it was only 49 percent among
people 55 years and older.
Do you agree with this?
While the evidence suggests that the
economic effects are sometimes mixed and frequently complex, it seems to be the case that
immigration tends to put pressure on low-wage labor markets in which African Americans may
work. Despite this, African Americans in California, while not as sympathetic to immigrants as
Californian Latinos, are far more sympathetic than whites: when asked to rank immigrants as a
benefit or a burden, 53% of whites chose burden with 47% selecting benefit with 55% of Blacks
choosing benefit and 45% selecting burden.
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Why do you think this is?
kaufmann - material interests
Dawson - linked fate
Of these thirty cities, only eight have an Anglo majority – and the most
populous of these are Bakersfield and Glendale (the 12th
largest and 15th largest cities) that both
boasted a razor-thin white majority in 2000 that has surely disappeared by mid-decade.
1/30 citirn and Wong
What's the difference between an assimilationist and a multiculturalist view of immigration?
How do we make sense of this:
86 percent of whites in California live in neighborhoods where more than
half of the residents share their racial background (majority white areas).
By contrast, 29 percent of the state’s blacks live in areas with a majority
of blacks, and 44 percent of its Latinos live in majority Latino areas?
How does increased ethnic contact influence people's opinions?
Threat hypothesis - what is that?
Contact theory - what is that?
What happens in CA? Does living in a diverse area and being exposed
to people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds foster positive or
negative perceptions of other groups?
What did they find?
The pessimistic assumption
that the increasing number of minorities in California is resulting in
more hostile attitudes at the local level is not borne out here.
Beyond this, the ratio of perceived positive to
negative effects was favorable, usually by a margin of at least two to one.
The only exception was the negative image of illegal immigrants.
What do you make of this finding?
Two-thirds of white respondents said that
their race and ethnicity were “not very important” or “not at all
important” when considering social or political matters. By comparison,
two-thirds of Asians and Latinos and 74 percent of blacks said that their
racial and ethnic identity was “very important” or “somewhat
important.” Of the minority groups, blacks expressed the most intense
sense of ethnic group identification: Among them, but not among
Latinos or Asians, a majority said that their racial identity was “very
important.
What about this one?
Finally,
respondents who thought that their neighborhoods were becoming more
ethnically diverse were less likely to agree that the United States will be a
color-blind society in the near future than those who saw their
neighborhoods as unchanging or becoming less diverse.
9/28 Changing Electorate
What do you think of Kurashige's comment at the end of his post?
It is clear from the California result that we will now be witness to a paradigm shifting clash between two consciously multiracial organizing strategies. Clinton's appeal is to give all minorities a seat at the table and a share of the pie. Obama challenges us to see ourselves instead as a collective majority. The fact that black voters have switched nearly wholesale from Clinton to Obama is far more noteworthy than the pundits acknowledge, signaling trouble not only for Hillary but for all black politicians who have pledged allegiance to the Democratic machine. Now we will see the degree to which Latinos and Asians will forego the certainties Clinton promises to embrace the challenge and hope Obama offers.
What do you think of Huntington's arguments about why Mexican immigration is different?
Contiguity
scale
illegality
regional concentration
persistence
historical presence
Do you agree with Huntington's view of the future?
Is Miami the future for Los Angeles and the southwest United States? In the end, the results could be similar: the creation of a large, distinct, Spanish-speaking community with economic and political resources sufficient to sustain its Hispanic identity apart from the national identity of other Americans and also able to influence U.S. politics, government, and society. However, the processes by which this result might come about differ. The Hispanization of Miami has been rapid, explicit, and economically driven. The Hispanization of the Southwest has been slower, unrelenting, and politically driven.
9/26 Current Crisis
In the news
From Missy B.
Rodriguez
Why is california the land of dashed hopes?
Why use this quote?
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat,
and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with
all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good
and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Missy's comment about proposition 8 - what does it say about california?
Kotkin
If CA was doing so well for a good 40 years, what happened within the last 20 to reverse everything? (Alyssa's question)
Do you buys Joel Kotkin's argument about California's decline? Anny other explanations?
Was it a better system in the 1950's? "it is in the public's interest for elected leaders to thrash out complicated issues without excessive scrutiny of the public or the press and without fear of losing the the next election" Why has it changed?
The newcomers are just as bright and perhaps more motivated to serve the public than the old...but the knowledge base in the Senate and Assembly cannont possible compete with the expertise in the executive branch and lobbying corps. So which is better?
2/2 Pastor
despite the presence of a moderate
Latino Democrat, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, competing to replace Davis,
Schwarzenegger was able to secure 31 percent of the Latino vote (more than the 18 percent he
secured of the African American vote, with the latter still remarkably high for a Republican in a
multi-candidate election).
The new mayor won over 60 percent of the overall vote, a
result helped along by a very strong 84 percent share of the Latino electorate – but what was
most striking was that Villaraigosa also garnered 50 percent of the white vote, 48 percent of the
Black vote, and 44 percent of the Asian vote.
Which coalition is the future of LA?
Essentially, the
changing racial landscape of California has made coalitions both more necessary and more
difficult, and triggered a new sort of "generation gap" – one in which the demography of the
older population in the state is very different than that of the younger population and hence
investments in the future have diminished.
How are they different? How do the affect politics?
Schrag suggests that older,
whiter, wealthier voters do not see their fate as tied to that of younger, minority, and poorer
future residents – and are therefore unwilling to tax themselves to pay for that future. Consistent
with Schrag’s hypothesis, public opinion data collected by the Public Policy Institute of
California suggests that willingness to invest equitably is highest among the youngest cohorts
and declines with age. For example, 62 percent of people ages 18 to 34 years said that low-
income and minority schools should get more money for facilities. Among people ages 35 to 54
years , the share responding this way was only 54 percent and it was only 49 percent among
people 55 years and older.
Do you agree with this?
While the evidence suggests that the
economic effects are sometimes mixed and frequently complex, it seems to be the case that
immigration tends to put pressure on low-wage labor markets in which African Americans may
work. Despite this, African Americans in California, while not as sympathetic to immigrants as
Californian Latinos, are far more sympathetic than whites: when asked to rank immigrants as a
benefit or a burden, 53% of whites chose burden with 47% selecting benefit with 55% of Blacks
choosing benefit and 45% selecting burden.
20
Why do you think this is?
kaufmann - material interests
Dawson - linked fate
Of these thirty cities, only eight have an Anglo majority – and the most
populous of these are Bakersfield and Glendale (the 12th
largest and 15th largest cities) that both
boasted a razor-thin white majority in 2000 that has surely disappeared by mid-decade.
1/30 citirn and Wong
What's the difference between an assimilationist and a multiculturalist view of immigration?
How do we make sense of this:
86 percent of whites in California live in neighborhoods where more than
half of the residents share their racial background (majority white areas).
By contrast, 29 percent of the state’s blacks live in areas with a majority
of blacks, and 44 percent of its Latinos live in majority Latino areas?
How does increased ethnic contact influence people's opinions?
Threat hypothesis - what is that?
Contact theory - what is that?
What happens in CA? Does living in a diverse area and being exposed
to people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds foster positive or
negative perceptions of other groups?
What did they find?
The pessimistic assumption
that the increasing number of minorities in California is resulting in
more hostile attitudes at the local level is not borne out here.
Beyond this, the ratio of perceived positive to
negative effects was favorable, usually by a margin of at least two to one.
The only exception was the negative image of illegal immigrants.
What do you make of this finding?
Two-thirds of white respondents said that
their race and ethnicity were “not very important” or “not at all
important” when considering social or political matters. By comparison,
two-thirds of Asians and Latinos and 74 percent of blacks said that their
racial and ethnic identity was “very important” or “somewhat
important.” Of the minority groups, blacks expressed the most intense
sense of ethnic group identification: Among them, but not among
Latinos or Asians, a majority said that their racial identity was “very
important.
What about this one?
Finally,
respondents who thought that their neighborhoods were becoming more
ethnically diverse were less likely to agree that the United States will be a
color-blind society in the near future than those who saw their
neighborhoods as unchanging or becoming less diverse.
9/28 Changing Electorate
What do you think of Kurashige's comment at the end of his post?
It is clear from the California result that we will now be witness to a paradigm shifting clash between two consciously multiracial organizing strategies. Clinton's appeal is to give all minorities a seat at the table and a share of the pie. Obama challenges us to see ourselves instead as a collective majority. The fact that black voters have switched nearly wholesale from Clinton to Obama is far more noteworthy than the pundits acknowledge, signaling trouble not only for Hillary but for all black politicians who have pledged allegiance to the Democratic machine. Now we will see the degree to which Latinos and Asians will forego the certainties Clinton promises to embrace the challenge and hope Obama offers.
What do you think of Huntington's arguments about why Mexican immigration is different?
Contiguity
scale
illegality
regional concentration
persistence
historical presence
Do you agree with Huntington's view of the future?
Is Miami the future for Los Angeles and the southwest United States? In the end, the results could be similar: the creation of a large, distinct, Spanish-speaking community with economic and political resources sufficient to sustain its Hispanic identity apart from the national identity of other Americans and also able to influence U.S. politics, government, and society. However, the processes by which this result might come about differ. The Hispanization of Miami has been rapid, explicit, and economically driven. The Hispanization of the Southwest has been slower, unrelenting, and politically driven.
9/26 Current Crisis
In the news
From Missy B.
Rodriguez
Why is california the land of dashed hopes?
Why use this quote?
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat,
and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with
all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good
and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Missy's comment about proposition 8 - what does it say about california?
Kotkin
If CA was doing so well for a good 40 years, what happened within the last 20 to reverse everything? (Alyssa's question)
Do you buys Joel Kotkin's argument about California's decline? Anny other explanations?
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