Reply #9: Yes

[dreamnightwind]

California is such a huge place, there's no way to speak generally about it. It really should be like 5 states, then maybe there would be some way to generalize about a particular region of California. Even then, though, huge variance just going from the city to the burbs to the country, different worlds.

Politically, too, it's many different places. Take a 50 mile wide slice along the entire coast, chop off the bottom part (San Diego) and you'd have the most progressive state in the nation. The remainder of the state would be red, with a few minor exceptions. When the coast falls into the sea, this state will vote like Oklahoma.