[ SECRET POST #6332 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6332 ⌋

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Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Once upon a time California was basically Texas but more chill, ranchers and oil men. Then Texas took a hard right turn down crazy street, to become just Southern North-Florida, and California started getting weird as hell. I have no idea what happened to drive those so similar states in such different directions.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Texas is whiter and more rural than California, ergo more conservative. And Cold War-era aerospace and defense spending was a major factor driving CA Republicans - once those industries declined at the end of the Cold War the hawkish suburban Republican defense engineer became a lot less important as a voting base in California. And Republicans in Texas aggressively rigged the voting system to make it much harder for Democrats to be represented in proportion to their population.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Californians go all over the map politically. For all the liberals there have been here, remember that Nixon and Reagan were both from here too.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

That's been a long time ago, though. You can look at Orange County and it's not the same place politically.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't been there in a long time so I'm not sure whether to say 'thank God' or 'oh no it's worse?'...

But Nunes was also out of California, so like... it's not as if it's all as in the past as Nixon and Reagan, like the central valley has plenty of folks on the right. Up in the sierras you get a mix of old hippies and people on the FAR right. There are for SURE people in my hometown who have gone further right.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah, the Central Valley is still pretty right wing, and everything north of Sacramento is pretty conservative, and same with Gold Country.

But, even relatively recently, you would have Republicans getting tons of votes all across Southern California. Orange County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County and San Diego County all went for George W. Bush twice. That's only 20 years ago. That just isn't happening anymore. Republicans are just outnumbered across the state to a degree that wasn't the case in the 90s.

If you go back further than that, into the 60s, 70s, 80s, you see Republicans winning everywhere across the state. Nixon and Reagan both won Los Angeles County twice! You'd never in a million years see a Republican win LA County. Ahnold didn't even win LA. The political environment has radically changed compared to that time period.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, both California and Texas are a lot more politically diverse than many people imagine them being. California has a ton of Republicans south of LA and Texas has a large Democrat populous in its bigger cities such Dallas and especially Austin.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

California has a ton of Republicans south of LA

This is not really true post-2016.

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

You gonna link some recent stats or..?

Re: What are your non fandom secrets.

[(Anonymous)]

Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Riverside counties all voted for Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Democrats hold 2/3 of House seats, State Senate seats and State Assembly seats across the four counties. All 4 counties have more registered Democrats than Republicans.

They're all blue now. Imperial is blue too.