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user-inactivated  ·  2860 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Republican nativism turned California into a democratic bastion

I helped get George HW Bush elected; he is the last Republican for President to win the state. I was still in CA at the time. Then I went Perot and was one of the volunetters pounding on doors in SoCal. Missing in that article is any mention of Perot and the "volunteers" who were left all looking at each other when Clinton won. I'm really REALLY interested in how many of those folks turned and worked to get better Democrats elected. Same time frame as well 1992 to 1994. By '94 I was living in my car wondering if I was going to make it to 2000 and dropped out of politics and all I can recall is the Republican take over of Congress, that won everywhere but California. This was the election that got Sonny Bono into Congress and that is all I remember from that time frame.