so what post 1950-POD could lead the City of Los Angeles to become the "capital of the conservative right" in the USA?
Prevent white flight, continue with suburban sprawl.
California, as in OTL continues its meteoric economic rise. While the sixties remain a turbulent decade. California remains relatively serene. For whatever the reason, the Watts riot never occurs. While it is common for retirees to sell their homes at a profit and move to Arizona, most people prefer to keep the jobs and culture present in the greater Los Angles urban sprawl. Despite the liberal leanings of the creative core of Hollywood, its black, and minority populations; LA remains a conservative town due to the triumvirate of the studio system, defense contractors, and petro-chemicals. Los Angles outside of Hollywood, is seen by the stereotype of being populated by reactionary white collar defense industry employees who congregate in office parks, and high security clearance manufacturing facilities.
San Francisco on the other hand...
Hmmm... OTL the Okies' children became decadent....So by the turn of the Centruy we have Los Angelos a medium sized conservative industrial port city, politically dominated by the decadents of the Oakies and the capital city of the US Defense Industry.
This may be the only ASB bit... If the culture is so conservative and pro-business, why would they even try to do much with smog? Let alone do more than OTL. Remember, that the Los Angeles basin developed smog from Indian campfires pre-settlement....The mayors are credited to reducing smog to a mostly tolerable level while still keeping industry.
Query: why would the electronics industry happen there, instead of in the San Francisco area?Techno libertarians are common in LA's large electronic industry.
Query: why would the electronics industry happen there, instead of in the San Francisco area?
so what post 1950-POD could lead the City of Los Angeles to become the "capital of the conservative right" in the USA?
Good point. Older companies like HP were already in Silicon Valley before POD. The creativity for silicon valley came from Stanford's support for it's students to start new businesses.
Defense-related electronics?
so what post 1950-POD could lead the City of Los Angeles to become the "capital of the conservative right" in the USA?
Somehow stop the Hispanic "invasion" from Mexico and Latin America, or at least NEVER let the Hispanics become voters. I have no idea how you'd accomplish the former, but the latter is legislative.
Back in the day, California voting Republican used to balance New York voting Democrat. Then the Hispanics came and vote ~ 100% Democrat.
Well, JPL is in LA, as is CalTech. I don't know how much defense-related stuff is done there, but NASA has big projects there. Defense-related electronics aren't going to create Silicon Valley. Silicon valley has its origins in business electronics but only becomes what it is because of consumer electronics.
However, it's important to note that Silicon Valley does not have a monopoly on electronics and computers, and never really did. There's plenty of room for another set of companies to conglomerate together as well.