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"Central California is very Republican" The voters might be but not the population, most of whom are not US citizens. Only US citizens get to vote. I lived in
by bugsy 16y ago
"Central California is very Republican"
The voters might be but not the population, most of whom are not US citizens. Only US citizens get to vote.
I lived in a couple of places in the central valley and have spent quite a bit of time in the area, so don't try to pull a fast one, I know how it is there.
Tons of drugs, despair, organized crime, and the crime gangs pay the police, who are corrupt. A big industry is running prisons, a boom economy for the guards who make a fortune shaking down prisoners to deliver them drugs, phones, and contraband.
- TomOfTTB 16y agoThe point I was making was that they had very little control over the state government because they elect republicans. So only the voters are relative to that argument. Beyond that your evidence is all anecdotal. There are certainly cities that are as you describe but there are also a lot of cities with perfectly nice communities (Coalinga, Frazier Park, Clovis and others). I don't think either of us has the statistical evidence to know which scenario is the norm
- bugsy 16y agoNo one is saying that there are no good cities! That was the whole point of my other post, the article wrongly extrapolates some miserable cities to a miserable state, which is obviously an incorrect conclusion. But there are a lot of really crappy towns in California as well and they've gotten worse the last 20 years.