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 '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 th and th 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