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« on: February 25, 2011, 05:53:06 PM » |
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« edited: February 25, 2011, 05:55:02 PM by sbane »
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The Democrats in California changed. Back in the day the central valley was the Democratic stronghold, just like the American south, and these two regions voted similarly in ways. While the central valley started voting Republican for President, it continued to vote in Democrats to lower offices. I believe a Democrat represented a white central valley district up till 1994.
At the same time the Bay Area and Los Angeles used to vote more Republican, but these places have been trending Democrat for a while now. I don't think ticket splitting happened as much here, so if they voted for a Democrat for President, they would vote similarly down ballot. This meant that a time came when Republicans did well in Presidential races, as they did very well in the central valley and decently enough in the urban areas. At the same time, those central valley areas that were voting Republican upticket, weren't voting as such downballot and the newly Democratic areas in the cities were also electing Democrats downballot.
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