freepcrusher
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« on: March 18, 2016, 03:48:58 PM » |
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From what I know, that didn't really start until about 1952 when Orange County got its own congressional district and sent James Utt to congress, who was basically a john bircher, even though he never was out of the bircher closet. But one of California's senators at that time was Thomas Kuchel who was basically a Rockefeller republican and was from Anaheim. Keep in mind that there were only 200,000 or so people in the county in 1950 so we're definitely dealing with a numbers thing.
It could be possible that at the time, Orange County was more Ham n Eggs, Hiram Johnson type of zany politics that characterized the state before WWII and that the flood of people from all over the country is what turned the county into a John Birch stronghold by the 1965.
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