[BlueDragon]

There was a proposal a while back, to cut the State into three pieces, a North, a South, and a somewhat isolated Central Coast comprised of Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara (and Ventura?) counties which would have been called "the Emerald Empire".

DOA of course, but I sort-of liked my section being cut off from some of the others. Politically though, SLO County has as much or more in common with Kern than it does with either liberal democRAT infested Monterey, and (particularly) Santa Barbara Counties. That was until the last election cycle...in which SLO County went 'rat in the presidential election, same as most of the rest of the Coast.

I'd bet that city-by-city Paso Robles might have remained Republican. Most of the out-lying rural folks county-wide, do not vote 'rat, which is why the County has been [Lois] Capps-o-mandered, splitting the city of SLO off from much of the rest of the County, lumping it in with her home turf of Santa Barbara, leaving much of the balance of the County grouped with Kern for U.S. Representative Districts.

[SoCalPol]

San Diego is the largest city in the U.S. with a Republican Mayor.

3 of our 5 congressmen are conservative Republicans