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What drove CA population growth during and after WW2 was Aerospace and Defense work. Argriculture remains big but does not need a lot of people, except to pick the crop. In the 30's it was the Okies and after the war the Mojados.

Hi tech up in the Bay area, Sunnvale ..started because of DOD and it's proximity to Stanford. Guns Bombs and bullets...ask me how I know..

S CA in particular was DOD heaven with all those Cold War contracts...all HIGH PAYING JOBS which attracted people from all over. And because of all the money made RE expensive.. You had Aerojet Gen, Hughes, McDonald, Douglas, Lockheed, TRW, Republic as some of the major playas... After 1990 and the end of the CW..all of that went away...and with it the end of Conservatives in power. As the place started to become increasingly over run with the peoples of colour the politics increasingly became Liberal...

Where did Ronnie call home again??? hmmm....what did Ronnie do as his first order of business as Prez....rebuild the military you say...and wasn't Cali his home? Lots of money was funneled into Cali because of defense spending... Now ya got Social Welfare checks coming from the Fed. So the more poor minorities who are now the majority vote Liberal to keep the money coming. Meanwhile all the big corps have gone elsewhere because of taxes and regs..

Where did Nixon call home... Whittier, Ca you say. He kept the money flowin to CA with DOD work...and with it CA in his pocket..

I was acquainted with the Millhouse Boyz...real charmers they are or were..