What happened to the ultra-reactionary right-wing suburbanites?

[Torie]

Orange County in the years that I lived there, was never particularly that socially conservative, at least not in the higher income zones. There also was not much racial tension that I sensed. What might cause a snap back to the Pubs is if the Dems start raising taxes on the middle to upper middle class, e.g., those making say 125K-250K.  In my former precinct, Romney got 60% of the vote. Trump 2020 got 49%, and that is a precinct without much demographic change, and has few kids, because its quite stunning views of the hills and ocean make the cost of housing per square foot relatively high, and those with kids want to spend their money on square feet, not views. So the place is dominated by white olds, with some Asians here and there and the odd Hispanic like Guillermo, who lives in my house there. Guillermo btw is a Republican never Trumper.

Anyway, I think some of the Dem trend in OC is due to the changing nature of the issues, and where the political cleavage points are, as opposed to a change in the demographics.