La Familia

[Solvedit]

Having a good family name is important to many.

However, it is my suspicion that many cultures may use family as a gang to sideline people into lives of entertainment because they want to remove competition for their sons and redistribute intelligence.  

I suspect that if they suspect you don't have a family name, such as for hypothetical example if you kid about being thrown out of the family, they won't cooperate with you or talk to you as you try to do your job.  

Immigration made this country great, but it is possible some of the earlier immigrants were fleeing this effect.  I don't know any old colonist families but suppose they were unable to re-integrate when the Parliamentarians won the English Civil War?  Or they simply fled Germany because the spread of Lutheranism set them free from the control of their former church?  Again, I don't know anything about any old colonial families.  They did, however. choose a bawdy British drinking song for the basis of their anthem.

Many of the present immigrants seem to be fleeing poverty rather than being sidelined or oppressed for being a little smarter than their community.

[Solvedit]

What happened with Proposition 187 in California?


Can it be the change in California's sentiment occurred when the freedom seekers and would-be enterpreneurs stopped coming, and the people fleeing poverty started coming in?  

Can it be the change was they were perceived as being likely to build communism because they were fleeing poverty and a lack of opportunity instead of seeking to escape an oppressive socialist system?  


This is a related point.  It is a speculation on the source of California's liberalism.  Can it be that many of the gold rush generation had entered the country to position themselves to help the Cavalier side in the upcoming Civil War?  Can it be that the gold rush led them far out of the South, and during the war, the US Army had an easy time keeping them from drifting back because of the distances and hostile natives involved?  Can it be the discovery of gold in California delayed the Confederates' timetable by about a decade?