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Old 09-30-2007, 05:23 PM
 
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If the original poster is looking for a place where a tried and true red state Republican is going to feel like the community at large is mostly filled with like kind, he is not going to find it in the Bay Area. This is a liberal area with no significant conservative enclave. And many of the Republicans here are liberal compared to red state Reps. Sure, the towns where people have the highest net worth also have a higher percentage of Republicans, but many/most of those are fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
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Old 10-01-2007, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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The Bay Area contrary to national trends over the past 3 decades, has decidedly gone left. Santa Clara and Contra Costa were both republican strongholds not too long ago, today things have changed and its really interesting how differently things have evolved here as opposed to literally everywhere else.
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Old 04-29-2014, 08:42 AM
 
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Maybe it's because the Republican party doesn't really take care of the middle-class?
LOL, at least they are not trying to destroy the middle class like the Democrats.
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Old 04-29-2014, 10:35 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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LOL, at least they are not trying to destroy the middle class like the Democrats.
And what evidence do you have to support that assertion?

I'd think that the Republican penchant of tax cuts for the wealthy, gutting public education, and opposition to minimum wage increases, have done more to further income inequality.
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Old 04-29-2014, 10:53 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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The Bay Area contrary to national trends over the past 3 decades, has decidedly gone left. Santa Clara and Contra Costa were both republican strongholds not too long ago, today things have changed and its really interesting how differently things have evolved here as opposed to literally everywhere else.
Well, the type of Republicans in those areas tend to be rather moderate, like Ed Zschau, Pete McCloskey or Glen Campbell (all House Reps in the recent past). They're however, nowadays few in number and have lost a lot of influence in the state party.

Now in the San Jose area we do have a few Tea Party types like Jerry Mungai but his ilk have few followers.
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Old 04-30-2014, 07:30 PM
 
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Right - like the the left wing liberals take care of the middle class Maybe this should be reserved for the "politics and other controverseries" forum.
Definitely agree with this. Anyone who thinks any political party really has the interests of the average person at heart needs to watch "House of Cards" for a little enlightenment. I've known enough people who've interned or worked in politics to know that almost no politician really cares about anyone but themselves. Sad, but I suppose politics attracts people with big egos. Idealists don't work in politics but in nonprofits!
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Old 04-30-2014, 07:32 PM
 
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The Bay Area contrary to national trends over the past 3 decades, has decidedly gone left. Santa Clara and Contra Costa were both republican strongholds not too long ago, today things have changed and its really interesting how differently things have evolved here as opposed to literally everywhere else.
True. I grew up in Walnut Creek in the 1980s, and Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 2-to-1. While it's shifted a lot, I do still see a lot of nondenominational, conservative churchgoers out there, and during the Prop 8 debate, I saw ONLY pro-Prop 8 people with signs on street corners. It's not as liberal as you think, but a lot more so than it used to be.

I have to say that it's a pattern throughout urban California, though. I spend a lot of time in San Diego, and it's gone the same way, from conservative to quite liberal, certainly on par with much of the Bay Area.
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Old 04-30-2014, 09:45 PM
 
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Definitely agree with this. Anyone who thinks any political party really has the interests of the average person at heart needs to watch "House of Cards" for a little enlightenment. I've known enough people who've interned or worked in politics to know that almost no politician really cares about anyone but themselves. Sad, but I suppose politics attracts people with big egos. Idealists don't work in politics but in nonprofits!
IMO most politicos are psychopaths.
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Old 04-30-2014, 11:55 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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You could have fooled me. I thought the whole Bay Area was as blue as it gets.
Not at all. There are backwaters around the north Bay that are like the midwest. One of our members was stuck working there for years, and was miserable. She said everyone was married by their mid-20's, and gave her a hard time because she wasn't. And the attitudes towards women were pretty gross. That was somewhere around rural Sonoma or Napa somewhere. Or maybe closer to Sacramento. The "outer" Bay Area.
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Old 05-01-2014, 10:03 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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The Bay Area contrary to national trends over the past 3 decades, has decidedly gone left. Santa Clara and Contra Costa were both republican strongholds not too long ago, today things have changed and its really interesting how differently things have evolved here as opposed to literally everywhere else.
Actually it seems like that has been the trend in metro areas across the nation over the past few decades, to lean more to the left. Bay Area really isn't evolving any differently, it seems it was just more to the left to begin with and moved farther so.
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