I forgot about this subthread -- got caught up in the other parts of it.

> We may not be New Hampshire (and we're not liable to vote for Buchannon :P) but I wouldn't call San Diego particularly liberal. . . . San Diego and Orange Counties are pretty staunchly Republican.

It sounds like I'm just wrong. I'm not even entirely sure where the idea came from; probably guilt by association with L.A.

Wasn't it San Diego county that banned the word "minority" to refer to...uh, minorities? This sort of liberal-y move probably made an impression. Also the impression that urban = liberal, which is admittedly a general rule with exceptions. Though L.A. is worse, San Diego is still one of the more populated areas in the country.

Ah well. Nice to know the sensible folk in California aren't all in the empty parts. ;-)