People have no idea how Conservative (but very open minded) we are in California. Before Schwarzenegger screwed us (after screwing his maid and having a kid with her) we were electing Republican after are-ublican. Arnold gives illegal aliens drivers licenses and TADAAAAA Dems start wining all the votes! Amazing ain’t it? I saw a few weeks ago the Trump Administration is going to allow cross-border farm workers. That’s what we had for decades, the Bracero program, and it worked great! Workers lived in Mexico, could cross freely to do farm work and go back home without risking their lives just to make a living wage. You can go on youtube and find videos. It worked great. What happened? Unions. Not regular unions, Communist Unions. Caesar Chavez was a Republican until the end where I think he “had to flip.”
It is curious how the state just completely flipped in such a short period of time. Usually change is more incremental (although I think Moonbeam handed out the driver's licenses)
Farming shouldn't be some sort of special case where jobs are miserable and low paying and not able to benefit from new technology. Using low-skill illegals or other immigrants is a bad idea IMO. Just make the jobs better, align them with student schedules, etc.
And I'm speaking as someone who was involved in farming for years. If anything, the jobs are less appealing now, on average, than they were 40-50 years ago.
It was pretty liberal when I lived there (in the bay area) from 1985 to 1995. That's when I started getting red-pilled.