I'm extremely late to this but anyone with even a cursory knowledge of northern Californian politics knows how rigged this map is holy shit. Including the area around OAKLAND with red counties like Modoc and red cities like Redding is insane. Another case of the left accusing their enemy of doing something they are actively doing (gerrymandering).
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Little late to this but Id really like to respond to as its an area of expertise of mine
Id like to teach you all a little about the geography of California to help better explain the deep divide between the 2 political parties in this great state with terrible leadership.
Alright, what a lovely picture of the WHOLE Golden state, though Im sure most of you are only familiar with our 2 bughives
The San Fransisco-Santa Clarita hyper cluster, also know as silicon valley (about dead center in the larger map to help orientate you)
And the bug hive of all bug hives, the roach warren that is Los Angeles (fairly far down south, ive included the channel islands so if you arent familiar with the area you can start to have a spacial understanding of where these citys exist.
The distance between San Fransisco and Los Angeles is 381 miles, that's almost twice the distance from Paris to London
So whats in the rest?
Im sure your eye was first drawn to the large green area in the center
This is known as the "Central Valley" and its where 1/4 of all the United states, fruits, nuts and vegetables despite making up less than 1% of the farmland
the people who live in this area, that being the Fresno, Merced, Tulare, Merced counties are the SALT OF THE DANG EARTH, I cant say enough good things about it. If you hate California but you haven't come out to Tulare and meet some Almond farmers you dont know who your hating.
There is over 100 degree temps in the summer and in winter it gets below freezing. People work very hard there from day up till day down and the only complaints you here are about the government. I know conservatism is in the minority because of how absurd our bughive situation is but its a LARGE majority if not by percentage by sheer numbers
The entire central valley and even small parts of the central coast are conservative majority's, thats what they are seeking to change. Sorry if ive been ranting about this when I could have just posted the district map but California means alot to me for all its failures. I think under the right leadership no place on earth could come close to replicating its potential.