Believe it or not I went to this school all four years of high school! While my time there was finished 10+ years ago, I don’t think it’s fair to group the entire student body in with these idiots. It almost certainly wasn’t the entire audience in th stands and I’d guess was limited to a particular group of friends (I can picture the exact type of kids in my head). While It’s true that Aliso is in South Orange County, which historically has been conservative (for California), the area has undergone some pretty enormous change over the last decade. Even when I was there I would of been very surprised to see this type of thing. Our senior class President was a gay black male, in a school where maybe just 1% of the kids in my class were black and where just 2, maybe 3 students were openly gay, in a school of nearly 4,000. The Vice President was a Persian Muslim woman in the early mid aughts not all that long after 9/11 and with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan probably the dominant news during our time in high school. Given the continued trends in the area, i’d guess today’s class is more diverse and open (while the school was majority white when I was there, it was probably more diverse than most schools in the country, with significant numbers of Latino, Asian and middle eastern students). My only point is there are surely a ton of students there who shouldn’t be tarred by the horribleness of a few of their classmates.
Side Note about Orange County in general though.. It’s perhaps one of the quintessential educated/affluent/suburban counties that has turned against the GOP under Trump and are viewed as vital to the Dems chances to take back the House. The trend away from the right had been occurring for several decades but excelerated rapidly with Trump, to the point where Hillary Clinton won the county fairly easily. Clinton won in not just the heavily diversified northern parts of the county but also in the more educated, affluent, and white coastal and southern portion. There’s 3 districts in the county that went for Hillary in 2016 but still have a GOP congressman. That includes the district where my parents still reside and Aliso Niguel High School sits in. Come November there’s a chance that every district located entirely within Orange County or which contain portions of the county will go democratic. Flipping 3 long held by Republicans seats in just 1 county in 1 election would be so great.
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