California Wins Dumbest State Award in Landslide

Pajamas Media ^ | November 3, 2010 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

[surrey]

We have friends in Lake Forest CA. They sent us the breakdown of the votes cast in Orange County and Moonbeam, Boxer didn’t win there.

[bestintxas]

What they did that was most stupid is rejecting the pot measure.

I really wanted that to pass as there would be many liberals in Austin moving to CA, thus improving my state.

[re_nortex]

California is in a giant hole. And on Tuesday, voters ordered up a fresh round of shovels.

I'll admit to a great deal of ignorance about inland California and I hope that fellow FReepers can help me better understand the situation. My totality of direct experience beyond the coastal region is confined to a couple of business trips to Bakerfield (and I never had the chance to get to Fresno otherwise I would have a picture of Jim Thompson [sic] over my mantle). :-)

It is my understanding (perhaps in error) is that Kern County is Conservative in spite of being over 38% Hispanic, which I presume is predominantly Mexican. I see that Fresno County is nearly 44% Hispanic.

Let me phrase this delicately: Are the Mexicans who reside in inland California more assimilated than those in the large urban coastal regions? If so, might that be a factor to explain the sharp voting differences shown on county-by-county maps?

My observations while in Bakersfield were that the people there were more like what I see here in Texas, pro-gun, pro-American, pro-God and country music fans. I realize that the 1930's were a time of migration out of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas and into the farmlands of inland California. In short, I felt more at home in Bakersfield (Buck Owens was still alive, too) than in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Marin County and other areas close to the Pacific.

Please correct any misunderstandings I have about regional variations in California. Thanks in advance to all for schooling me!

[Inyo-Mono]

My observations while in Bakersfield were that the people there were more like what I see here in Texas, pro-gun, pro-American, pro-God and country music fans. I realize that the 1930's were a time of migration out of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas and into the farmlands of inland California. In short, I felt more at home in Bakersfield (Buck Owens was still alive, too) than in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Marin County and other areas close to the Pacific.

Yes, inland California is flyover country. The California counties voting map reflects this. Where I live in the rural north eastern part of the state near the Nevada border, you still see gun racks in trucks, duck and deer hunters everywhere with Country music palying on their radios. Oh, and church is a big deal on Sunday.

[Inyo-Mono]

palying: “playing”

Oh boy!

[TruthHound]

As is the situation on a national scale, the people (especially the Mexicans) in the flyover areas actually WORK for a living. They readily realize that the societal parasites in the bigger cities on the coast suck directly from their wallets.

[MichaelNewton]

I think this video accurately describes the voting in California. (It’s Monty Python’s Flying Circus...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31FFTx6AKmU

[Lou Budvis]

The CA GOP’s problems are caused in large part to the horrible gerrymandered districts, which allow the most moonbat libs to get elected. Google CA-23 if you want to see maybe the worst gerrymandered district in the country. By virtue of two Props though, this should end by end of this.

Eastern CA, big parts of SD, Orange and Ventura counties are still Reagan country. Further, in 2008, we passed Prop 8, in May 2009 we defeated 1a (which would’ve allowed a sales tax increase to continue for two more years, this year we defeated an $18 per car tax for state parks and defeated raising taxes on business.

It’s going to take a lot of time to rebuild the GOP here, but it’s possible.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Bakersfield is Texas. Coastal Californians are terrified of it. :)

[ResearchMonkey]

Here's the problem with California.



Even some of the NE-side in that little blue zone is conservative.
There's like ~5 Congressional Districts in that little spot.

Much of California is Conservative, Bakersfield and Fresno
are very conservative as is the rest of the Central Valley.

I suspect when the system here crashes it will as bad
any natural disaster. Zombies out hunting for food,
it's going to get messy. -- The Fed will respond when
the SHTF.

On the bright side (if there can be one) is that
California can produce. If we can manage to learn from
this and get a swing towards conservatism we can come
back strong. -- We have productive farm land that
just needs water. We have oil both inland and
offshore. If we really went crazy, we have enough
coast for another nuclear power plant or TWO.

Of course we can always just wait for that anticipated 9.0,
it will shake things up for sure.

[A CA Guy]

This is what you get when you make citizens in amnesty out of a nearby country's hillbillies.
Then ad hiring government employees at 300% of normal wages with ungodly benefits.

We appear to be beyond the 50% tipping point of people voting with their hands out for other people's money.

[A CA Guy]

The false god of Islam sent him, right?

[Mr Inviso]

Not to mention re-electing Barney Fa.. err Frank

[stevio]

Maybe he’s got the hots for her?

[stevio]

When you look at it from a valuable piece of real estate, it’s worth fighting some effeminate liberals for it.

[ResearchMonkey]

When you call California home, it’s worth fighting for it.