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Originally Posted by Bikemike
Southern California is still much more politically conservative overall (think “blue collar liberal”) so there generally isn’t the robust drive to protect open spaces that you’ll see in the Bay Area, whose liberalism is about much more than just worker protections and other social welfare issues. You won’t see too much concern about sprawl in SoCal culture
Every time I visit SoCal it’s like a cultural time-warp back to the late 90s in terms of prevailing values.
Whereas the Bay Area continues to build on this https://www.greenbelt.org/blog/urban...undaries-need/
SoCal continues to do this http://ir.tejonranch.com/news-releas...ntennial-tejon with little controversy.
This is hard proof of the tremendous cultural gulf between the two regions, and distills all one needs to know about the source of the state’s progressive thinking. Thank goodness for Camp Pendleton |
Talk about sweeping generalizations. Most of Los Angeles city is about as liberal "blue" as San Francisco. Even much of once red O..C. is turning blue, or at least purple. Some of the suburbs are still red, but so are some of SFs outer suburbs. San Diego city is majority Dem. although some of the suburbs are still red. Los Angeles has as much undeveloped land around it as the S F area, including the Santa Monica Mountains NRA, the national forests in the San Gabriel Mountains etc. As far as not caring about sprawl, if Tejon Ranch were put to a vote it would be voted down. It is not a done deal. I am against it as are a lot of people down here. The SF and L A metro areas have more in common than many people admit.