Sacramento Bee List of California's Most Left-leaning and Right-Leaning Cities

[majoun]

Originally Posted by citizensadvocate

Not necessarily. Cities in the Bay Area are generally pretty diverse in population but they strongly embrace nanny state rules. So is LA, santa Santa Barbara, and SD. And some OC cities.

While cities in the interior of the state while they may be mostly homogenous they seem to avoid meddling.

Those cities have a lot of rich white people, even if they are not the majority.

LA has almost completely pushed out working class whites outside of a few neighborhoods, and middle class whites are dwindling rapidly, while the population of rich whites expands.

A city like Oakland is overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly nonwhite but it has a larger concentration of affluent whites than overwhelmingly white Redding, for example.

[citizensadvocate]

It seems its always the elitest controling the rest.
It appears they have power in immigrant majority communities as immigrants are less likely to vote or take part in policy making even if they hate it. Think about it Chinatown and many ethnic neighborhoods in SF hate all those restrictions passed by their city council on their traditions but could do little about it other than civil disobedience.

Huntington Beach residents recently seem to be taking a tea party stance to city council issues and have some success. Some other OC cities are following thats a good start.

Though unfortuntetly HB is an exception, naturally those in power in those major cities along the coast or near the coast more often than not belong to the far left. And if one is a city council member that does not support strong lefty or nanny state policies the candidate selection process, or municipal version of electorial college, would run you out and replace you with someone that will support it by the next election, even if that doesn't happen he will be made very uncomfortable staying within the council chambers. This is what exactly happened in a number of Bay Area cities particularly Milpitas during the last three years, and Milpitas is a very diverse multi ethnic town. Nowadays its also nearly impossible to vote in a non democrat city council member in the Bay Area.

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by citizensadvocate

It seems its always the elitest controling the rest.
It appears they have power in immigrant majority communities as immigrants are less likely to vote or take part in policy making even if they hate it. Think about it Chinatown and many ethnic neighborhoods in SF hate all those restrictions passed by their city council on their traditions but could do little about it other than civil disobedience.

Huntington Beach residents recently seem to be taking a tea party stance to city council issues and have some success. Some other OC cities are following thats a good start.

Though unfortuntetly HB is an exception, naturally those in power in those major cities along the coast or near the coast more often than not belong to the far left. And if one is a city council member that does not support strong lefty or nanny state policies the candidate selection process, or municipal version of electorial college, would run you out and replace you with someone that will support it by the next election, even if that doesn't happen he will be made very uncomfortable staying within the council chambers. This is what exactly happened in a number of Bay Area cities particularly Milpitas during the last three years, and Milpitas is a very diverse multi ethnic town. Nowadays its also nearly impossible to vote in a non democrat city council member in the Bay Area.

It really isn't about ideology, it is about Control and who has it.

[BlankScreen978]

I'd imagine Central Valley cities would top the list for most conservative.

[kettlepot]

Originally Posted by BlankScreen978

I'd imagine Central Valley cities would top the list for most conservative.

After 13 years of demographic and political transition, they probably do now.

[NearFantastica]

Originally Posted by BlankScreen978

I'd imagine Central Valley cities would top the list for most conservative.

Yeah, Redding is definitely near the top

[Zenstyle]

How is it possible that Humboldt County isn’t on the left-leaning list?!

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Zenstyle

How is it possible that Humboldt County isn’t on the left-leaning list?!

Most of the folks up there aren’t really sure what planet they’re on let alone what their political spectrum is

[volosong]

Originally Posted by FresnoFacts

Most right-leaning (lowest percentage of Democrats)
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7. Coronado (San Diego County)
8. Ridgecrest (Kern County)
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Ancient thread, twice revived.

Coronado and Ridgecrest. Both Navy towns, (i.e., North Island, China Lake).