As goes California so goes the nation.

[Kablooie]

This old saw may once again demonstrate it's truth.

California has become overwhelmingly Democratic recently. So much so that Republicans have virtually no influence in politics anymore and there is no indication of that changing in the foreseeable future.

If this election continues down the path it's currently on we might find this to be the future of our entire nation!

[winetourdriver]

1. Yes!

And once we got a super majority in Sacramento, this place started to thrive!

[lapfog_1]

2. yeah, but there are still major areas of California that are

repuke. I know, I live in one unfortunately.

City council and school boards are very republican (Trump people, tea party idiots).

[CobaltBlue]

6. lapfog_1—Think Orange County (Santa Ana)!

The last time it carried Democratic was Franklin Roosevelt’s re-election—with carriage of 46 (of 48) states—to a second term in 1936.

(Even Barry Goldwater—when he lost nationally by –22.58 percentage points and carried just 6 states—won Orange County, California.)

[senseandsensibility]

8. Orange County's Asian population is growing

by leaps and bounds, so I expect this to change very soon. In fact, I am sure it is already happening.

[Kablooie]

7. Well we did give the country Reagan.

And we birthed and buried Nixon.

The right won't go away but they might be marginalized.

[Hortensis]

3. That's been a real worry ever since Trump pulled

the white sheet off the core of today's Republican elephant and paraded it in all its nasty reality.

It was exactly California's social right's attempt to deny basic services to undocumented immigrants, mostly from south of the border, aka "Mexicans," that killed the party in California. California has both large Hispanic populations of course, and millions of non-Hispanics who chose for their Hispanic friends, relatives, neighbors and coworkers, and for just plain basic decency.

[randr]

4. And the economic recovery in California is just what the nation needs

to follow as an example. People in Red States need to wake up and understand that they do not need to live under the poverty cloud of Republican economics.

[CobaltBlue]

5. About 85 percent

California first voted in 1852.

It has carried about 85 percent for presidential winners. (Historical average is at about 69/70 percent.) California historically is one of the most reliable states having voted for presidential winners.

During the 20th century, just three (1912, 1960, 1976) of the 25 elections did California not carry—and two of them (1912, 1960) were attributed to losing tickets claiming California as the home state of either the presidential (1960) or vice-presidential (1912) nominee.