Correct. It slowly started with WWII. Japanese-Americans were rounded up and sent to concentration camps inland. Their housing was taken over by blacks brought in from the southern states, to do work at the various shipyards in and around San Francisco. After WWII, there was a flood of settlers coming in to the area, primarily consisting of soldiers returning to America who had first shipped out of the SF Bay Area and liked what they had seen in SF. At the time, SF (and most of California) was Republican. The shift leftward accelerated in the mid-1960s with an influx of more outsiders from the east (Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown, etc.), and they flipped the mayor's office to Democrat (ending a half-century of Republican mayor rule). The left-ward shift was well under way by 1970, with newbie residents demanding closure of all things related to military bases (The Presidio, NG Armory, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, Treasure Island Naval base, etc.). Got worse with an influx of gay activists.
The shift left was a half-century in the making, caused by outsiders from the East Coast.
How dare you post facts and history!! Don’t you know that California has always been ultra-leftist and has never ever voted for any Republican at any time in it’s history!!!
Thank you for the perspective and the history lesson. Truly it did not happen overnight. I saw a lot of it happen.
And that is EXACTLY HOW IT HAPPENED!