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[bryant]

If I were part of any sort of political movement in California, I would pay close attention to this map. I would not waste time complaining about how foolish people were. I would figure out why the map looks like that, and take advantage of the reasons.

Talking about how it’s time to stop holding back counts as complaining, by the by.

Comments

[huaman.livejournal.com]

How would you take advantage of it, other than by spinning off the SF Bay Area into its own separate unit? Not, arguably, that it isn't already in its own special place, haha? But seriously, nothing obvious leaps to mind that would really allow for someone to capitalise on those differences politically, at least not beyond garnering relatively localised power.

Perhaps the thing I find most interesting about that map is just... so, highly-paid Silicon Valley types would really choose "tough love for California" and higher taxes? And as another aside, it's also interesting in that most of the latinos I know were offended a) by the assumption that they'd all vote NO and Bustamante because he's a latino and b) that they'd be swayed by driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, when they know Davis has vetoed that before and nobody seems interested in fixing the problems that make it so some people can't readily get legal in the first place and c) does everyone really think they're so stupid they can't detect pandering?

Belated congrats, incidentally, on your own escape from this neck of the woods. At the rate we're going, we might escape by 2020 or so.

[space-parasite.livejournal.com]

I think it's more that the Bay Area is more diverse; look at the percentages given to the leading candidate in the red bits, as opposed to the green bits.

This is not too surprising, because although the highly-paid technical types (and higher-paid parasites on the ability of the technical types) are the most visible, there are also a whole lot of poorly-paid, mostly Hispanic service industry victims to serve those geeks their lattes and change the oil in their BMWs. Not to mention the just plain freaks that SF and environs are famous for.