Ronald Reagan, for example, signed one of the most liberal state abortion laws in the country when he was governor of California — before Roe v. Wade.
And the Mulford act, the strictest gun-control in the country at the time.
But still, I blame the Bushes. They THREW open the borders; that combined with the loathsome coward Republicans who didn’t give a damn when they could have done something and then turn around and whine like little girls that California is now ‘commie’ when it was THEIR doing. The GOP sold California out and then pissed (and are still pissing) on the problem they created.
California was the new world then
Bright and shiny
Idealized
Hollywood and the Bay Area
It had a lot to offer
When I’m in LA it’s not how Latino it is
Isn’t everywhere now?
It’s how oriental it is?
Give me a better word for Koreans Chinese Japanese etc in east Asia and I’ll use it
California hasn’t been solidly Republican since the 20’s. It never again voted more than 58% for a GOP Presidential candidate after 1928. Even Nixon, a native son, barely got 55% in his landslide victory in 1972. Reagan got 57.5% in 1984, about 1.3% less than his nationwide total.