05-27-2016, 05:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2016, 05:54 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-26-2016, 06:45 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: 1. They are well educated. A high level of formal education used to be a proxy for Republican voting (look at the electoral map of the 1950s for President); such is no longer so. The States that Eisenhower lost in either 1952 or 1956 included the least-educated States in America even if that meant that he would win Massachusetts and Minnesota. In 2012 Obama did not win any state that Eisenhower didn't win twice.
2. They strongly support formal education. If their kids are to stay in California and not be retail clerks or restaurant workers who must stay in the family McMansion because they cannot find work that can pay enough to live on, then they will need a high level of education.
3. They are very liberal on inter-ethnic sex. Many are in mixed-race marriages, even if the mix is 'only' white-and-Asian.
4. They are unlikely to be fervent Christians.
5. They like Big Government to keep the environment livable. They are environmentalists, and they see no reason for their environments to become moonscapes like former strip mines in Appalachia.
6. They do not see cheap labor so much as a boon as a blight, the antithesis of the GOP. Much like most screen actors in southern California they are more concerned with the common people being able to buy their product than with keeping costs down.
Very good summary. I would say any group of people inclined to have good sense today, aren't going to be voting Republican.
I think the early semi-conductor firms were in Santa Clara County, according to documentaries I have seen. This is one.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperien...s/silicon/
Intro specifically mentions Santa Clara valley
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperien...roduction/
Fairchild Semi-conductor and its offshoots like Intel were here in Santa Clara County. I believe the first location was in Mt. View. Stanford University, founded around 1890, was an original fount of tech industries here, starting with vaccuum tubes. Defense contractors were big here during the Cold War. My Dad worked for a while in a couple of those.