[Leaning Right]

Orange County attracted white middle-class and upper-middle-class residents who were either fleeing an increasingly diverse and liberal Los Angeles

Fleeing "diverse" LA...very subtle charge of racism against those fleeing residents. Is the OC Register a liberal paper? Or is that just something all papers do instinctively?

[Pelham]

“Is the OC Register a liberal paper?”

Used to be libertarian. On social issues they were often fellow travelers with the Left.