He'd like to make the reader now believe his neighbor was the farmer in Fresno, the truth is the (like minded?) guys in skinny jeans in Palo Alto are really his neighbors.
A quick trip to Hanson's Wikipedia bio yielded this line:
He is also a fifth-generation farmer, growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California where he resides, and is a commentator on social trends related to farming and agrarianism.
A side trip to MapQuest shows me Selma CA is about 10 miles or so down CA-99 from Fresno so the Fresno farmer is his neighbor.
And you thought you had such a clever "gotcha"...
He was a Never Trumper, which surprised and angered me. I’ll never forget the fact that he was working behind the scenes to elect Hillary, no matter how eloquent his prose.