[fr_freak]

-—good post—and surprising to be in a California publication-—

Orange County was once a conservative bastion of California. Whether they still are, I couldn't say. However, one of the reasons that California, for all of its reputation for being run by hippies (a fairly well-deserved reputation), has not fallen as far as some smaller states, like MA, is because there is a large California heartland which is still conservative. It is LA, SF and the coastline in between that is left-wing as it gets. The big valley and the mountains are full of people who are pretty much as conservative as the rest of the sane parts of the country, so the hippies have had to work slowly to push their agenda past them, rather than just ramming it through.

[Sigurdrifta]

My daughter (Marine) lives in San Diego. Seems to still be pretty conservative to me. Of course it’s all relative, and compared to SF, anything would seem to be conservative.

[xp38]

And one of them would be the founder of this website.

[zimfam007]

Yep...you can tell where the hippies live b/c all the military bases have been closed or turned into ‘sanctuaries’....but East of the coast there are plenty of god fearing, gun loving, conservatives.....and military bases....