[adorno]

Most of Californians are Republicans, but they aren’t living where the liberals live.

Then, why has California not had a republican governor in a long time? Even when republicans had control, California still moved left. Seems like ALL Californians like liberal government rule. If most Californians are republicans, and love republican-type rules/regulations/laws, they would either rule the state or have moved out, or they don't care about voting.

[Jonty30]

Yes, that is the reason.
Democrats have the population centre and they’ve created policies to drive out wealth creators, leaving Republicans, who still outnumber Democrats, but are too spread out to be able to do anything about it.

[DoughtyOne]

I think Jonty30 references the largest parts of the state
that are run by Republicans. (or they used to be, things
are changing). It may seem (or more accurately, used to
seem) that most of the state is Republican based on this
land mass evaluation, but the fact is, 46% to 24% of the
state’s citizens are registered Democrat/Republican.
Let’s see what I can find on all this, linked below.

See mapping political geography: One quarter page down...

https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-political-geography/

See Report of Registration breakdown...

https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/15day-presprim-2024/complete-ror.pdf