83% of this County voted to recall Newsom.

[WarGamer]

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]

1. it has the most active volcano in CA, Mt. Lassen, a socialist national park nt

[Retrograde]

13. Mt. Lassen is in Shasta County

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]

2. My sister lives in N CA. She says it's a bastion of RWers.

The rethugs know how to push a couple emotional issues to sway folks that really ought to be democrats if they’d pay attention to real policies.

[msongs]

3. but wait, there's more - its biggest employers are 3 prisons (wikipedia) nt

[Clash City Rocker]

4. The northernmost counties in California might as well be Alabama

That’s the part of the state that was pushing for the six state initiative awhile back. Lassen was Trump’s best county in the last election.

[onetexan]

9. yup, CA is like 3 states - S. Cal, coastal & Bay area (blue), & central & far north inland CA (red)

See this results map from NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/14/us/elections/results-california-recall.html

[LiberalFighter]

5. They only had 7,900 voted.

[Arresting]

15. the population of the entire county is only 34K N/T

[hatrack]

6. Lassen County? Why yes - I think it's the county with all the flames coming out of it.

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[cally]

18. Yes, decimated by ongoing Dixie fire

These folks are suffering

[keithbvadu2]

20. It's their fault because they did not rake the forest like Dotard recommended.

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]

26. My friends brother and his wife live very near that country ...

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]

7. It's very rural, about as far from a city as you can get.

Rural is usually conservative, regardless of the state.

[highplainsdem]

8. According to Wikipedia's article on the county, which has most of its demographic data from

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]

17. the discrepancy is because of the prison populations.

they only know african americans and latinos through the prisons.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Rural California is no different from northwest Georgia.

[lame54]

11. They're a prison economy...

Two federal and one state

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lassen_County,_California

[underpants]

21. Thank you. That sums it up.

[CanonRay]

12. Been through Susanville quite often

I didn't realize it was that nuts.

[RockRaven]

14. If California was its own country, Lassen Co would be our Wyoming

or perhaps our Idaho or Montana. Definitely one of those three.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

16. Here's the 2020 election map:

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]

19. That area has become a haven for a particularly nasty Evangelical group.

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]

22. Part of "Greater Idaho"

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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.
~
https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-05-21-5-more-counties-join-effort-to-add-parts-of-california-oregon-to-idaho/

[Hekate]

24. I see that would give Idaho a sea coast. They've got delusions of grandeur. nt

[moondust]

25. Yes it would.

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]

23. Sagebrush Rebels.

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]

27. The distance from the northern border of California to

its southernmost border is 1040 miles. (Similar to distance from Milwaukee to New Orleans.) 12-15 hours of driving, not all interstate. It’s a huge state.