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I mentioned that theory in my comment. It doesn't explain everything though. A conservative in California has basically zero voting power and is vastly outnumbe

I mentioned that theory in my comment. It doesn't explain everything though. A conservative in California has basically zero voting power and is vastly outnumbered by liberals. Ostracizing conservatives from the tech industry isn't actually helping their cause. And is actively hurting it by giving the other conservatives fuel for a victim narrative. In fact that's the biggest problem. These two groups completely hate each other, but live in separated regions. If they were completely mixed together geographically there would be no issue. People fired from liberal run companies could just go work at conservative run ones. We would have conservative social networks and liberal ones, and the "free market of free speech" argument would actually work.

smacktoward 9y ago
> A conservative in California has basically zero voting power and is vastly outnumbered by liberals This is only true in some parts of California, whereas other parts of the state are notoriously deeply conservative. Orange County, for example, was central to the power base of both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. (The Nixon Library is in Yorba Linda; Reagan's is in Simi Valley.) Taken as a whole California tilts left these days, and even Orange County isn't the hotbed of conservatism it used to be (it went for Hillary by a few percentage points). But there's still plenty of conservatism in the state -- enough for Donald Trump to win 25 of its 58 counties last year.
perl4ever 9y ago
I don't think it's meaningful to say the two groups "live in separated regions". I live in the capital of NY, and when I hit the road to go on vacation a week ago, the first pickup truck I saw with a Confederate flag was less than 30 minutes outside of town. Thinking of things in terms of "red" and "blue" states can lead you to an incorrect way of looking at things. At a more granular level, the country is all red over most of the land area, with blue clusters and tendrils around population centers, like neurons. Both "red" and "blue" states look like this.

smacktoward 9y ago

> A conservative in California has basically zero voting power and is vastly outnumbered by liberals This is only true in some parts of California, whereas other parts of the state are notoriously deeply conservative. Orange County, for example, was central to the power base of both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. (The Nixon Library is in Yorba Linda; Reagan's is in Simi Valley.) Taken as a whole California tilts left these days, and even Orange County isn't the hotbed of conservatism it used to be (it went for Hillary by a few percentage points). But there's still plenty of conservatism in the state -- enough for Donald Trump to win 25 of its 58 counties last year.

perl4ever 9y ago

I don't think it's meaningful to say the two groups "live in separated regions". I live in the capital of NY, and when I hit the road to go on vacation a week ago, the first pickup truck I saw with a Confederate flag was less than 30 minutes outside of town. Thinking of things in terms of "red" and "blue" states can lead you to an incorrect way of looking at things. At a more granular level, the country is all red over most of the land area, with blue clusters and tendrils around population centers, like neurons. Both "red" and "blue" states look like this.