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We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...

There’s a ghost haunting next week’s elections in California. It’s been there 20 years. Proposition 187 – a measure Californians overwhelmingly voted into law on Nov. 8, 1994 – was never enacted. The ...

Learn how Prop 187 garnered divided reactions among immigrants and even political parties. Early polling showed overwhelming support for Proposition 187 even among Latino communities. It would be an ...

Learn more about the aftermath of Prop 187’s passage. Despite the massive efforts on the ground, Proposition 187 still passed with 59% of the total vote approving the ballot, but the story doesn’t end ...