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States are pretty large entities. My state, Washington, is coastal and unquestionably liberal, but we have huge groups of conservatives. When you actually squin
by saraid216 14y ago
States are pretty large entities. My state, Washington, is coastal and unquestionably liberal, but we have huge groups of conservatives. When you actually squint, though, you'll notice that there's a political West versus East divide in the state itself that maps pretty well to Left versus Right... or urban versus rural.
Similarly, I grew up in California, which used to be famous for how liberal it was, until the Republicans got their act together and actually used their majority some uh.. 7 years ago? Ish? (I might also be mischaracterizing this; I'm basing this off memory rather than stats.)
- smacktoward 14y agoCalifornia conservatism goes way back. Despite its liberal image, there are parts of that state that are legendarily, ferociously conservative; the most famous one has been Orange County (see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/us/politics/30orange.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/us/politics/30orange.html), which was a seedbed of conservative activism for fifty years. The campaign to pass Proposition 13 in 1978 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281978%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%2819...) became a model for 1980s anti-tax conservatism. Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan both came out of California. Etc.