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by pmwhite 2875 days ago
"California, an extremely liberal state, voted in a 72% majority referendum for the three strikes policy."

Incorrect. In 1994, when the three strikes legislation passed, CA was a purple state with a moderate Republican governor.

It is the anti-immigrant rhetoric around Prop 208 in 1996 that undermined the GOP in the state, by driving the majority of the young and non-white into the arms of the Democrats.

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