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Originally Posted by Crawford
True, but I think it's fair to say OC is relatively conservative for Coastal CA.
Trump Conservatism generally just doesn't work there, so not surprising there's GOP decline. But it's still a competitive county, which is kind of crazy given the strongly nonwhite demographics. Yeah, the older Vietnamese vote GOP, but that isn't a huge countywide vote.
My sense is that places like Dana Point and Newport Beach (white, rich, culturally conservative, fair number of traditional Protestant Christians) are still solidly GOP, and if you gave them a non-Trumpy candidate, they'd be overwhelmingly GOP.
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Oh my gosh, for several weeks now, I've been seeing ads on TV from Republican Congresswoman Michelle Steel from Orange County, being that she's up for reelection. Her ads are so annoying. She's a Korean-American, married to a white guy (presumably conservative himself). Anyway, in her ad, she said "My family came to the US to escape socialism..."---Even though she was born in Seoul. Such bullshit. And I recently read how she's really kissing up for votes among the Republican-leaning Vietnamese community in Orange County.
Not sure how accurate the source is---here's the website, and I specifically did my city:
https://bestneighborhood.org/conserv...h-pasadena-ca/ (you can zoom in and out and look at other US areas), but here's LA County's Repub/Democrat political leanings:
I noticed the pink areas are low-populated industrial areas, airports, oil refineries, at least in the southern portion of LA County.
Here's the Bay Area:
Notice SFO's "political leanings."
Here's California, divided up by county:
When you compare the out of state counties bordering California, it looks like California is surrounded by a sea of Republicans, even moreso than California's Central Valley.
Even the Pacific Northwest, which people seem to tout as very liberal, looks quite Republican when you break it down by county:
Only the largest cities of the PNW are liberal.