Amen, Finny! Wow! That’s neat about you’re being 5th generation Californian. That has got to be tough living in a predominately liberal state. Seems like you have hung on tenaciously to your principles. God Bless You for being a voice of Godliness.
If you take a county-by-county look at the election map, you see that California is VERY MUCH a red state except for the blue counties mostly along the coast (and not all of them, at that).
God bless, c-joy!