In fact, I would say the majority of CoCo County will vote conservative.
Contra Costa County went Democrat in the 2000 election by a wide margin:
Gore 58.8% 224,338
Bush 37.1% 141,373
Nader 3.4% 13,067
Other 0.7% 2,700
Some of the rest of what you said is true. I'm not so sure about Beverly Hills, though.... I go there once or twice a year, and it still seems pretty left leaning to me.
However, Laz's main point, as usual <g>, is also not entirely supported by the facts. He said:
However, over 2/3 of the CA pop lives in the urban/suburban areas of the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and San Diego. Now back when Repubs controlled the date, the Southland was conservative. That has changed. Now the only remaining bastion of conservatism is the Central Valley.
Starting from the Mexican border along the coast, Bush carried San Diego County (by 38,000 votes), Orange County (by 150,000 votes), Ventura County (by 3,000 votes), and San Luis Obispo County (by 12,000 votes). Bush lost Santa Barbara County, but only by a little less than 2,000 votes out of more than 150,000 cast. The only other coastal county in the Southern part of the State is LA County, which Gore won by a wide margin. Every single inland county in California South of the Bay Area (and most North of the Bay Area) voted for Bush.
For a county by county (red and blue) election map of California in 2000, see uselectionatlas.org |
