Abstract
On June 23, 1994, California’s secretary of state officially announced that Proposition 187 had qualified for the November general election ballot. With opinion polls showing Prop. 187 leading in May by 27 percentage points and in July by 37 points, the campaign began with opponents of the illegal-immigration initiative facing a difficult contest. They had not yet lost the war, but their enemy was well entrenched before a shot had been fired. The story of the campaign is essentially the story of how the opposition to Prop. 187 fought back in an exceptionally emotive and bitter contest.
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Wroe, A. (2008). The Campaign. In: The Republican Party and Immigration Politics. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611085_5
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