The Difference Between California and Texas

Over on BurntOrangeReport.com is an interview with Sergio Bendixen, one of Hillary Clinton’s pollsters, who made this (to me, interesting) observation in discussing the Hispanic vote:

Almost one-half of Hispanics in California are immigrants, compared to only 18% in Texas.

I wonder if that is a result of California’s more generous welfare benefits vs. Texas’ stricter (almost non-existent) policies. Or is it because of California’s need for migratory workers and farm hands? Anyone who knows, please comment.

3 Comments to “The Difference Between California and Texas”
  • jb

    Thus showing how Texas does not need a fricken’ wall like the ugly enviromental eyesore traversing between Tijuana and San Ysidro in California when we have a natural river as a barrier.

  • DA

    Yeah, right…that river has done a HECK of a job at stoppin’ them. Almost as effective as those 55 mph signs that control speeding on the tollway.

  • Buck

    Wick, it’s because Texas already had an entrenched native-born population of 4 million Latinos before the recent population boom.

    We’ve added 1.5 million. California had fewer to start with, and has added more.

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