Immigrants are key to California's future

Today's L.A. Times has an excellent op ed by Peter Schrag, who has been one of the most persistent writers in the state addressing the demographic transformation of California and the political/electoral irrationality that persists.

A fragment of the article and the link:

Immigrants are key to California's future - latimes.com: "Yet as boomers retire by the millions beginning in this decade, taking their skills with them, California, rather than making college and other advanced education more accessible, is making access harder, shutting down programs and increasing the costs. 'Cultivating a stronger base of future home buyers,' Myers says, 'will help the older generation as much as the young. This partnership needs to be strengthened between older future home sellers and younger potential home buyers.'

So far, however, the critical economic and social nexus between the self-interest of older white homeowners and the younger Latinos and other immigrants who represent much of the state's future is hardly perceived by much of California's tax-averse electorate."