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Utt was a bit kooky: "OC U.S. Congressman James B. Utt makes national news by suggesting that "a large contingent of barefooted Africans" might be training in Georgia as part of a United Nations military exercise to take over the U.S."
That's nice, but it's certainly changing. McCain beat Obama in Orange County by only 2 percentage points. And Democrat Loretta Sanchez has won reelection in her Orange County district at least six times.
Orange County continues to defy liberal stereotypes of California. An article from last June describes Orange County's robust traditionalism:
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In a state where the dynamics of marriage, family and home are shifting, Orange County remains a "vestige of tradition," as one sociologist put it.
Analysts, however, say the county's loyalty to convention is not due to a push to maintain its image as a pillar of social conservatism. Instead, they point to the bustling Latino commercial districts in Santa Ana, the Vietnamese American coffee shops in Garden Grove and the halal butchers in Anaheim — to an influx of immigrants who have imported the old-fashioned family structures of their homelands.
Orange County's ethnic enclaves are founded on religious and cultural values that include strong family ties, said Jack Bedell, a sociology professor at Cal State Fullerton. "It means 'I take in 'grandma because I want to, not because I have to,'" said Bedell ...
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Congrats to Orange County for keeping sanity alive in California!
Not really. It's obvious that you either have your head in the sand, or you don't go to OC a lot.
And Democrat Loretta Sanchez has won reelection in her Orange County district at least six times.
She first won her seat by fraud. In 1996 she ousted Bob "B1" Dornan by winning by less than 1000 votes. A later investigation found that nearly 5000 of them were questionable as to their legality. In 1996, and every election year thereafter, the word has gone out among the illegal alien community in her district; vote early, vote often, vote Democrat, vote Latino.
She first won her seat by fraud. In 1996 she ousted Bob "B1" Dornan by winning by less than 1000 votes. A later investigation found that nearly 5000 of them were questionable as to their legality. In 1996, and every election year thereafter, the word has gone out among the illegal alien community in her district; vote early, vote often, vote Democrat, vote Latino.
In a county dominated and controlled by Republicans, you really think that's what happened?
I'm so sick of right-wing conspiracy theorists. Bunch of nuts.
Schmitz was so far to the right, even the John Birch Society dumped him. He was a family values, far-right conservative Roman Catholic Republican who carried on a long affair with a former student and fathered two children with her while married to his wife.
Then of course, there was his even more famous daughter--another family-values warrior.
To each their own, I suppose. Orange County reminds me of a giant gated community with a seriously authoritarian HOA, but if that floats your boat...
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