2007-03-20 08:03:52 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ United States ➔ San Francisco
I mean from the mid-90s onwards
2007-03-20 08:50:09 · update #1
Not really.
There has been changes since the 1960s-1980s. At that time, Northern and Central California voted Democratic. While Southern California was solidly Republican. However, for the most part, the changes since the 1990s have not resulted in any significant electoral shift. The North/South divide has merely been replaced with an Urban/Rural divide.
Los Angeles County has become extremely liberal. Santa Barbara, Anaheim, and San Diego proper has also flipped from very "reliably conservative" to "highly contested." Rural Southern California remains very conservative, as it always was.
Much of rural Northern and Central California is also very conservative nowadays. With the exception of the liberal big cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, those regions have flipped to "reliably conservative."
However, although they occupy a much larger space than L.A. County and S.F. Bay... they're far less populated.
Thus, despite losing huge swathes of "territory" across the state, the Democrats are still dominant in voter registration. And the Republicans still command a significant following, having replaced all their losses in the urban areas by strengthening their control of the exurbs.
2007-03-20 09:23:18 · answer #1 · answered by SFdude 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Depends what you consider recently. 20 years ago we elected Deukmejian twice, I think he was far and away the best governor we've had since I lived here. I don't think he could get elected now though.
EDIT: Yeah are you talking about Arnold? Arnold is more of a statement of how bad Gray Davis was than it was of conservatives having any clout here.
2007-03-20 08:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about Arnold, then no. Arnold is really more of a centrist.
CA is still a democratic stronghold. It is an anomoly becuase the democractic wing is really really liberal and the republicans are really really conservative. Arnold is one of the rare centrists.
Also, the GOP is mad at him because he's too liberal. CA still elects democracts overwhemingly in the state legislature.
2007-03-20 08:57:58 · answer #3 · answered by captaincarney 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To a certain extent yes.
Once your Governator runs for the Presidency and wins things will change yet again in some manner.
In other ways, California is even more LaLaLand then ever before.
2007-03-20 13:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by Noor al Haqiqa 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋