AHC: Conservative San Francisco, Liberal OC

Your challenge, with a POD after 1900, is to basically reverse the political and social roles of San Francisco County and Orange County, i.e. the former becomes a bastion of the right, and the latter a bastion of the left.
 

wormyguy

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I'll go with Plumber's POD for the OC (though one his username might indicate a bias towards... :p). As for SF, possibly have Taiwan or the escape route to it somehow captured by the Communists during the Chinese Civil War and so many of the OTL Chinese expatriates go to the large existing Chinese community in San Francisco, taking along their strong anti-Communist views.
 
Orange County - direct LA's water to there.
San Francisco. Hmm, why is it so liberal?

From what little I do know of SFC, it was IIRC somewhat small-c conservative for an urban area until the 60's. So maybe have the Summer of Love occur somewhere else, and have the WWII outprocessing of discharged homosexuals in another location (Hawaii? Seattle?), thus moving the core of the OTL LGBT population to somewhere else?
 
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