Ulysses wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 12:07 pm
The simple fact remains is that a majority of California voters favor the liberal/left side of the block. And there are plenty of state laws that favor the left side that EVERYONE in California has to abide by, regardless of what local community they live.
Of course, we do have Solar and his Toy.
Yes, one of the many things I like about California is that while the state is not without its loons, they don't usually get to run the place. But the reason California is, overall, "blue" is because so large a percentage of the population lives in the cities. There's a lot of the state north of you that isn't so blue - it's just that not many people live there so their impact is lower. Most of the major cities in, for example, North Carolina are blue also, including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and of course bright blue Asheville. However, there are more people who live in the rural-ish areas proportionately than in California, so they have more power and can control the legislature despite being a minority. Current registration in NC is:
2,537,032 or 36% were registered Democrat;
2,344,632 or 33% were registered unaffiliated;
2,104,881 or 30% were registered Republican; and
47,334 or 0.7% were registered to another party
So even though the moon-barking drooling Neanderthals control the NC legislature and pass a lot of stupid stuff, the population of the state isn't as "red" as you think, and particularly if you live in one of the cities.
Blue-ness can be lost pretty easily, too - ask Virginia. And 30 year ago, California voted Republican in the Presidential race and had a Republican governor as recently as 2006. And we've got McCarthy, Nunes, Issa, et. al. And a bunch of people who wanted to boot Newsom over taking reasonable steps to control a major health issue.