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Lassen County, CA
Has anyone EVER heard of them?? A little bit of Alabama in Northern California?
Seriously though... what makes it so GOP? As far as I can tell, it's not full of Golf Clubs and such things... and doesn't seem like a "Sundown Town" either... why so RED? Idaho for people who want to live in Sandpoint but need California State benefits?
msongs
(67,395 posts)Retrograde
(10,134 posts)and Mt. Shasta is in Siskiyou County. I've been to Susanville, the largest town in Lassen Co., and while it was a nice enough place it's not a particularly "happening" spot.
Modoc County, to the north, has nicer scenery, IMHO. Both counties combined have a lower population than rides CalTrain between San Jose and San Francisco on a given day.
captain queeg
(10,178 posts)The rethugs know how to push a couple emotional issues to sway folks that really ought to be democrats if theyd pay attention to real policies.
msongs
(67,395 posts)Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)Thats the part of the state that was pushing for the six state initiative awhile back. Lassen was Trumps best county in the last election.
onetexan
(13,037 posts)See this results map from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/14/us/elections/results-california-recall.html
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)Arresting
(30 posts)hatrack
(59,584 posts).
cally
(21,593 posts)These folks are suffering
keithbvadu2
(36,778 posts)It's their fault because they did not rake the forest like Dotard recommended.
Is it sarcasm if I mention their failure to act?
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)and mostly all of those idiots there blamed Newsom and Pres. Biden for the fires, and many of them he told her still LOVE tRump, and want Pres. Biden/Harris/Hillary and Pres. Obama arrested
By the way, my friends brother is married to a black woman, so uh the looks they get.
It is 2021, but as someone said that part of California is like parts of Alabama.
tinrobot
(10,895 posts)Rural is usually conservative, regardless of the state.
highplainsdem
(48,971 posts)the 2000 census, the county is more than 80% white, and with male residents vastly outnumbering women.
The major employers in the county are three prisons. In 2007, half the adults in the county worked at one of the prisons.
maxsolomon
(33,316 posts)they only know african americans and latinos through the prisons.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)lame54
(35,287 posts)Two federal and one state
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassen_County,_California
underpants
(182,785 posts)CanonRay
(14,101 posts)I didn't realize it was that nuts.
RockRaven
(14,959 posts)or perhaps our Idaho or Montana. Definitely one of those three.
NameAlreadyTaken
(977 posts)Modoc County is in the top right corner and Lassen County is just below it. Lassen had the highest % for Trump of any California county in the 2020 election (74.47% for Trump). The deepest red part of California.
haele
(12,648 posts)There have always also been a lot of conservatives and anti-social types up in that area for the longest time. They like to play "independent sons of the soil/mountain man" up there.
My father taught up in Anderson for a year.in the sixties; couldn't handle the bone-headedness and went to another school district along the coast before Reagan cut education funding.
Haele
moondust
(19,974 posts)According to the group Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho, these California counties are under consideration: Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, Modoc, Lassen, part or all of Plumas, and parts of Butte and perhaps Sierra.
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https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-05-21-5-more-counties-join-effort-to-add-parts-of-california-oregon-to-idaho/
Hekate
(90,656 posts)moondust
(19,974 posts)Looks like at least 8 Oregon counties so far are putting it on the ballot in 2022.
https://ktvl.com/station/greater-idaho-movement-reaches-ballot-milestone-in-klamath-co
maxsolomon
(33,316 posts)Trapped in a government-subsidized Cult of Individuality with a massive inferiority complex.
Folks east of the plains can't really picture how far Susanville is from anywhere - 3 1/2 hours to Sacremento. Even further from the N part of the county. The isolation and barely-above-poverty incomes create resentments that aren't based in reality
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)its southernmost border is 1040 miles. (Similar to distance from Milwaukee to New Orleans.) 12-15 hours of driving, not all interstate. Its a huge state.