California was a Republican stronghold in presidential elections from 1952 until 1992. During this period, the Republicans won California in every election except the election of 1964. In these years, the GOP regularly nominated Californians as presidential candidates: Richard Nixon in 1960 and 1972, and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Since then however, the Democrats have carried the electoral rich state since 1992. The immigration of Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans and migration of northern liberals, who tend to vote Democratic, and the flight of white, middle and upper-middle class suburbanites out of the state shifted the balance in favor of the Democratic Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_California
But now it's worse as the Democrats have a super majority and an idiot governor now who will spend the surplus we have. I did not like Jerry Brown who retired, but at least Jerry was able to stop some of the wacky legislation that these liberals proposed. My big complaint on Jerry - the train to nowhere.
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