A new battle of elite (WASP?) vs. average joe (majority) == 
California is now the most politically divided state in the union: the coastal counties are the "blue state", the people are viewed as "WASP" or preppie, home to upper-income urbanites strongly for most liberal policies (i.e. gay marriage, eco-consciousness, no immigration controls, etc.) versus the "red state" inland, valleys and deserts where lower-middle class suburbanites and small town people are viewed as "redneck", farmland conservatives for the most part. There's been alot of talk about the neo-con/ultra-lib "OC-ies" of very affluent Orange county and the economic liberal/social conservative "OKies" of high poverty-rate Kern county, the word "OC" is a trendy initial for the county and "OK" stood for the dust-bowl refugees from Oklahoma came to Central valley in the depression-era 1930's may well preserved their sociocultural distinctions. It mirrors of the old WASP vs. ethnic, northern vs. southern, and rural midwest/west vs. urban northeast/east divides of the 19th and 20th centuries, in addition to the O.C. is "diverse" but the wealthiest beach towns and hillside home tracts are homogeneous (or racial minorities have been "whitewashed") compared to Kern County's Hispanic majority (or plurality with more Blacks, Asians & Middle Eastern groups by percentile) with a strong Okie-Texan sociocultural fabric who actually sympathizes with Latinos or Mexican-Americans, note many "OKies" are Native American (often Cherokee) whom been viewed as "not white" before. It may be possible for the state of California under a Republican governor associated with the Hollywood Left and the "very blue" San Francisco/Los Angeles-dominated state legislature (the districts with the highest populations) is in a battle against the two-thirds of the state landscape are "deep red". + 71.102.2.206  

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