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annunakigohome Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 12:59 PM
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Is CA racist? Did you guys read about this Republican mailing regarding Obama
and depicting him with watermelon, fried chicken, etc. on food stamps?!

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_webbuck1.e7982b.html?npc

Scroll down to see the illustration...It's amazing, and yet totally a bummer, that this is still happening in 2008, and in CA no less! I know there are Republican pockets in the state, and that the West has states so red that McCain is leading by quite a bit (look at Utah, for example). Very few Blacks live in Utah, so...But damn, I thought Californians were supposed to be all touchy-feely New Agey types for the most part.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:00 PM
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1. Californians are a diverse bunch
Including many rednecks, hayseeds and racists.

It all depends on how far inland you are, and how far north.
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annunakigohome Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:06 PM
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6. Do you know the area where the newspaper is published?
It said "Inland CA" and I couldn't get an exact reading on what they meant. I saw that Sacramento was mentioned somewhere.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:10 PM
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10. It mentions Temecula and San Bernadino
Republican hot spots.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:30 PM
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14. If they said Inland and mentioned Sacramento
They are probably talking about the Fresno area, which would explain a lot.

Lot of "Joe the Plumber" types.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:49 PM
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19. The Press-Enterprise is in Riverside
About 50 miles east of LA.

I don't know where "Chaffey Community" is, but Chaffey Junior College is in Rancho Cucamonga, about 15 miles northwest of Riverside.

The further inland you go in Kollyforniya, the more conservative it is. The Central Valley runs about 60-65 percent Republican, and the north (Eureka) and south (Orange County to San Diego) coasts also tend more GOP than other coastal areas, which are solidly Democratic from the Bay Area to Los Angeles.



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amdezurik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:01 PM
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2. Lots of places are like that here
Lots of them in the valley sadly
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:01 PM
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3. There are, in fact, several people who live in California.
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:02 PM
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4. The Central Valley and the rural North tend to be less progressive
California is huge, so you have a little bit of everything here.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:05 PM
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5. California is huge and there are deep red areas north, south and central.
Not so much on the coast.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:07 PM
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7. And what state might you be from?
I don't see a profile.
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annunakigohome Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:08 PM
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8. This is not a slam on CA, by the way...And as for my lack of profile?
I would rather be judged for my postings rather than personal info.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:09 PM
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9. I think CA got that reputation in the 60s & 70s because of the "lifestyle"
the media fed to the sheeple. Most people that don't live there have an image of California that only applies to the ~5 - 10 mile wide strip along the coast, they forget/don't know about the 300 miles of desert and high plains that are made up of garden spots like Barstow, Fresno, etc.
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annunakigohome Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:12 PM
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11. You know, I agree with you about that...I remember seeing something recently
about a wildfire in CA and they had these trailer parks where people were being evacuated or something and I was surprised because I associated trailer parks with a certain part of the country. I am sure they are everywhere but those of us who have never been to CA think of mansions and Malibu and Beverly Hills...
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:36 PM
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17. CA literally has everything, the richest of parasites and poverty that looks like the 3rd world,
mountains, beaches, deserts, plains, forests, fires, floods, earthquakes, avalanches, and some of the best weather on the planet. (I don't recall any tornadoes, so my subject may be inaccurate, sorry)
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:21 PM
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12. You mean at the time most Californians were voting for Reagan?
It wasn't that long ago California was a solid red state.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:30 PM
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13. Exactly, the reality is far from the image.
With few exceptions, every bat-shit crazy, weapons hoarding, racist nazi I've ever met lived CA.
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ComtesseDeSpair Donating Member (529 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:31 PM
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15. Not Everywhere
I come from a small town in Northern California where 80% of the population voted Republican in every election, so yes, there are spots of freeper hell in California.
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annunakigohome Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:40 PM
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18. Say it ain't so, Joe...um...scratch that!
I just cannot believe that the state which brought us Haight-Ashbury and Berkeley has THAT side to them.
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ReadTomPaine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-16-08 01:35 PM
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16. The NorCal/SoCal cultural divide isn't nearly as big as the coastal/inland gap...
Edited on Thu Oct-16-08 01:36 PM by ReadTomPaine
and that's actually something that holds true for most of the country, not just California.
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