Onyx, being an ex-Californian, you may find this interesting. In the early 1990's I was very politically active locally in the part of L.A. County were I live. So I met many of the local politicians, both Dims and Republicans.
Back when now-Congresswoman Diane Watson was running against Yvonne Braithwaite Burke for a seat on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, I was in a position to be able to deliver votes in the unincorporated area where I lived at the time. So they each invited me to some of their campaign events. I went to the opening of Diane Watson's campaign HQ in the Crenshaw district.
This was during the height of the Latasha Harlans and Rodney King garbage swirling in South Central. During her speech for her HQ opening, Watson stoked the crowd with hatred for the LAPD -- and, she said, for "those brown shirts over the hill," a deliberate double-entendre reference to the L.A. County Sheriffs who patrol unincorporated areas. (Over the hill referring to Baldwin Hills, a mostly middle class to upper middle class black area.)
Extreme haters and Marxists like Watson, Maxine Waters and others of their ilk now dominate the California and larger Democrat caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. They will rabidly go after those "whitey brown shirts," only this time their targets won't be LAPD and LASD, but President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
Yep, elections have consequences.