I lived just outside of Modesto and the area was solid conservative. If only we could cut LA, San Fran and Sac loose from the US, and keep the rest, that would be great.
I live about 100 air miles east of there on the other side of the High Sierra (6 hours from Modesto by auto), very conservative here our county went for Trump. Los Angeles gets 60% of its water from us. They would be in trouble if our area was cut off from them.