Californians -- The GOP's Real Migrant Problem

The state's diaspora spreads throughout the once-solidly Republican West. So does its politics.

By Ryan Sager
Los Angeles Times

RYAN SAGER is the author of "The Elephant in the Room: Evangelicals, Libertarians, and the Battle to Control the Republican Party" (Wiley, 2006). rhsager.com

September 25, 2006

IF BLUE-STATE Californians want to give the national Republican Party palpitations, here's some practical advice: Go east, young man (or woman).

Just not too far east.

Read the rest of Ryan Sager's L.A. Times op-ed piece.

After three days of chewing on the information in Mr. Wilson's Malan's Basin feasibility opinion letter, we thought the time was ripe this morning to stir the pot with something new. Although your humble blogmeister has been acutely aware of the internecine ideological struggle being waged in western states between neoCON and paleoconservative GOP factions, this is the first article we've found that neatly frames it as a battle between the "western" and "southern" wings.

Our gentle readers can offer their 2¢ on this thought-provocative article, or simply regard this as an open-topic thread.

The floor is open to new discussion. Talk about whatever floats your boat.