Some INSANE California County Maps from State Elections

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It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

[kwabbit]

It doesn't seem like the CV had a farm crisis backlash to the GOP like the Midwest did. The White vote was just less polarized then. Can anyone speak to the effect of the farm crisis there?

entirely different agricultural industries, and the crisis was in part shifting the midwest to an industrial model closer to the central valley's

Yeah, my perception was that the CV has large, plantation style farms while the Midwest has small family farms. Not in the sense of slavery, but just a huge farm with tons of workers on it.