For decades, Californians prided themselves on cutting the path to be trod later by national political figures. Ronald Reagan rose first on the West Coast and spread eastward with his election as president. The anti-tax movement likewise moved from west to east, grounded by the historic approval of Proposition 13’s property tax limitations in 1978.
This year, the state’s Democrats and Republicans are moving, in some key ways, in exactly the opposite direction from the national parties. CONT.
Cathleen Decker, Los Angeles Times