The most spectacular evidence of this is the disastrous damage the Republican Party did to itself in California in 1994 with its support of Proposition 187.

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The Republican Party in California has been a permanent minority party since 1994 when it backed Proposition 187, a law nearly identical to the Arizona Republican adopted last year.

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The Supreme Court found a similar Texas law unconstitutional in 1982, and a comparable California law, Proposition 187, was passed in 1994 but got tangled up in the courts.

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