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I was surprised the vote was so strong on NO. We live outside the city limits, so did not get a vote.
I do wonder if the incident of the 9 murdered in Mexico not that far from us affected the vote.
My perception of Tucson, and the surrounding area was that there was not really a huge ethnic divide between Hispanic, Latino, and Anglo-American culture. That may be due to the fact that the Tucson area has been a melting pot since the late 1600’s. Although American citizenship was a result of the Gadsden Purchase for the established Hispanic, and native Americans southern Arizona had the advantage of benign neglect from Mexico City, and later as a territory of the United States they enjoyed a measure of benign neglect from Washington DC.
The first Anglo-Americans came in the 1840’s and 1850’s. Some of them married into Hispanic families. I like to joke that the Apache’s who were indiscriminate raiders who did not care about your ethnicity made intermarriage palatable. In other words every gun mattered, so welcome to the family.
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On the other hand, it’s easier to vote with one’s feet at the city/county level than to do so at the state level. Letting cities legislate for themselves becomes really problematic when cities get so big that it becomes logistically difficult to live outside the city and still commute into the city for work. e.g. New York City, Detroit, Los Angeles, etc.
Up here in the Great White North (where, constitutionally, cities are pretty much vassals of the provincial governments) I might be sympathetic to the idea of granting cities more legislative authority as long as the provincial governments also put strict limits on how big individual cities are allowed to get (in terms of geographical size, not population).
For example, my city annexed nine of its neighbours in 2000 and is now over 1077 square miles in size. That’s more than double the size of Los Angeles and seven times the size of Detroit. Voting with one’s feet when council passes dumb laws is nigh impossible if one wants to continue working in the city.
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I wonder what type of “immigrant” they are talking about that wouldn’t feel safe and protected.
I’m going to go out on a limb that cutting off access to tax livestock is motivator numero uno.
The sanctuary city proposition in Tucson failed by a wide margin — about 71% against, 29% in favor. This was surprising to me, as the city of Tucson itself is significantly Left-leaning.
Like Michael, I live outside the city limits, so I didn’t get to vote on this one.
I admit being surprised by the vote as well; MECHA and reconquista are big there.
Had it been close, or had it won, we would have far more serious concerns about the state being Califorincated in 2020.
That AP story has it wrong. I grew up in Tucson where the Hispanics have always outnumbered the Anglos. As far back as I can remember they have had a very prominent role in the city socially, business wise, and in politics. To pretend that they needed to be given protection by some law is ridiculous. They are, by this vote, clearly discouraging illegals and voting for safety.
I have a map of the territory that dates to about 1860 which shows Tucson but no Phoenix.
As for the Apaches, I have friends whose family owns an enormous ranch south of Tucson. Before statehood it was even larger. In the eastern part of the ranch are the ruins of a ranch house burned in an Apache raid. The ranch has a guesthouse near the main ranch house that still has rifle slits for the days when it was the ranch house.
finally some sanity prevails
Is the tide turning? Do libs now see some of their policies create havoc instead of Utopia?
I wonder . . .