My family moved to California from the New York area about the time you mentioned....circa 1974. California gained additional Republican voters when my family moved there (to Santa Barbara).
I lived in California for 16 years and there was no shortage of native-born California twenty-something and thirty-something voters who were proud liberals and voted as such.
You also can’t discount illegal immigration.....once the anchor babies reach voting age, they’re overwhelmingly voting for the rats.
Then there’s the liberal teachers, brainwashing the next generation of voters with their leftist agenda.
“My family moved to California from the New York area about the time you mentioned....circa 1974. California gained additional Republican voters when my family moved there (to Santa Barbara).
I lived in California for 16 years and there was no shortage of native-born California twenty-something and thirty-something voters who were proud liberals and voted as such.”
You arrived too late. Boxster and Pelousey were already here. Babs rolled in from Brooklyn in the late 60’s along with Nazi, who grew up in The People’s Republic of Baltimore.
I am sure we had our own home-grown liberals as well (Fineswine and Brown are notable members of this group), but the fact remains that growing up in California in the 1950’s as I did, it was a very red state.
Back then the Blacks were on the move, but they made an alliance with the Mexicans which the Mexicans ignored just as soon as they were able to make it politically on their own. Right now, our State Legislature is mostly Liberal Jews and Mexicans, with a few token Blacks from “pockets” in SoCal. At one time Willie Brown was Assembly Speaker for years, and Mervyn Dymally was Lt. Governor. But I will wager that a Black will never be in either position ever again, let alone be our governor. Even Brown is an anachronism today.