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« on: September 01, 2019, 01:58:22 PM » |
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People forget how long the suburban-growth trend towards Republicans lasted in California; relative to the nation, the state's Republicanness peaked sometime around Reagan's first election. Because of how fast it became a Democratic-leaning state after this (it was zooming left in the 1980s, and already a sine qua non for Dukakis), the fact that it was barely if at all right-leaning in the 1940s and 1950s has kind of been forgotten. (It was certainly to the right in the 1964-1980 set of elections, though; 1972 merely showed that left-wing candidates there had a high floor).
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