BTW, CA was very conservative for many many years....See 3 strikes your out, Reagan, mega industry, etc, etc. But look what happened over the past 30 years or so....Well...
This reads like a book...
I don’t recall California ever being conservative like Texas, in fact, almost a half century ago Californians considered Austin the only oasis of sanity within Texas.
California has been republican, but it was always a loosey/goosey, rino, social liberal republicanism.
You are a perfect example of the attitude of many Californians towards Texas conservatism, they despised and mocked Texas, even in the 1960s.
Yep, CA was a bastion of conservatism in the 60’s...Berkeley, LA, San Fran and all that.
I don’t think Reagan could have won Gov without the Hollywood connection. It was not his conservatism, it was his star power. Another words, it was the cult of personality back then. It just happened to play in our favor that time.
Again, Why is Texas (the whole state) second in population but no where near second in liberalism? And if its all about population, why is Collin county, one of the most populated counties (had multiple cities top the fastest growing list for US several years in a row) rated the most conservative voting county in the entire state?