There is a strong and growing core of conservatives in the Bay Area. KSFO is perhaps the best talk radio station in the country -- all conservative programming, and kicking ass.
Any liberal who owns a home in SF proper or Berkeley is a de facto hypocrite -- property values are ridiculous -- the ones who have hung on here since the 60s are all very wealthy and could feed hundreds of downtrodden every month by liquidating their real estate. They are American property-owning capitalists par excellence.
& all the many SFO area conservatives whom you allude to ---
& (true) SFO area libertarians!
I had a friend who wrote pulitzer quality stuff for the Chronicle (or was it the Examiner?
(--- same thing, I guess)
and her bosses hated her & persecuted her essentially for distracting from the
"gay agenda",
which was their ONLY agenda;
so she left....