Would you want to live in Fresno?
Hell no. Weren't they supposed to be populist over there? Because that county went 55.5% for anti-union Prop 75.
The populist Hispanics don't vote.
No wonder Republicans like immigrant labor so much. Not only can they treat them like sh**t, but then the local area still votes right-wing, because they can't vote.
I'v been trying desperately to get Hispanics and Hmongs to participate much more in the political system, but many are not integrated and its been tough. My Spanish skills aren't up to much speed.
Fresno's City Council has 4 Democrats, 2 Republicans and 1 Independent conservative-right-winger; actually. The inner-suburbs, the city are Democratic and by fairly solid margins. The outer-burbs are very very GOP.
Its the unincorporated rural areas that helps the GOP here, and an unabashedly 'we originate from Okies' conservative township respectfully called Clovis.
I'll say that close to 95% of Democratic voters in Fresno are poor and vote for economic reasons. Similar situation exists in Tulare and Madera counties, only those counties lack a Democratic-city proper.
As for prop voting, we voted for Prop 73 by a larger margin than Bush's victory.. which obviously leads a glance at that our Democrats have a populist-bent in thier voting streak.
Oddly, Cal Dooley and Jim Costa, congressmen of CA-20 are both more libertarian liberal Democrats as opposed to populist Democrats. Odd...
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