Posted on 05/10/2004 3:32:35 AM PDT by Simmy2.5
After President Bush took the stage during an October fundraiser in Riverside, the crowd cheered his announcement that the former citrus town had raised more than $1 million to keep him in the White House.
After all, that was on par with the money Bush collected at a fundraiser in affluent Orange County two months earlier.
Orange County still reigns as Southern California's Republican stronghold when it comes to generating votes and campaign money for GOP candidates. But the Inland Empire, with its unbridled growth in population and registered voters, is gaining on its westward neighbor and could take over the region's Republican throne within a decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
My daughter and my Ex-wife believe the Inland Empire is going strongly conservative.
S.B. County could become the next Orange County.
Hardly.
The future of Bush's GOP lies in Mexico.
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