Reply #12: The Bay Area is leading a trend among US urban areas

[CreekDog]

Bay Area started going Democratic in a huge way back in the 80's with Republican suburbs (usually quite moderate by national Republican standards) and then Republicans started losing in the Bay Area. Other urban areas around the country began to trend the same way about a decade later. In 1994, most of the Bay Area congresspeople had sleeper-quiet reelections (Democrats).

In 1994, in my state assembly district, Jackie Speier was nominated by both the Democratic and Republican party --and she is a liberal to the core. She won that race with 93% of the vote (in 1994).

Now we only have Guy Houston (easily the worst rep in the Bay Area).

To be fair to the Bay Area, Houston's district is only half in the Bay Area, the other half is in the Central Valley.

So it's more accurate to say that of the districts contained in the Bay Area, there are no elected Republicans to the leglislature or congress, period.