Lesson Plan: Immigration in the 1990s – Proposition 187
How did demographic trends and a changing California economy in the 1990s create a backlash against immigration, only to be followed by another swing in the ideological pendulum? This lesson examines how economic and demographic forces affect the strategies of the political parties, and demonstrates how policies like Proposition 187 can produce unintended and surprising consequences.

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