THE MAN WHO PUT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE TOILET, RICHARD BLOODY MILLHOUSE NIXON, WAS FROM CALIFORNIA!!!! IT WAS HIS "SOUTHERN STRATEGY THAT STARTED THIS MESS."
HIS STRATEGY WASN'T ABOUT THE SOUTH, OR THE NORTH, OR THE MIDWEST, OR THE CALIFORNIA COASTLINE. IT WAS ABOUT GETTING REPUBLICANS IN POWER AND KEEPING THEM THERE. THE S.O.B. HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR!!!!!

For the record, I had family on both sides of the civil war. Great grandfather William B. McFall served with John Bell Hood's Texans.   He came north after the war, and married Martha Ramage, whose family home had been a station on the underground railroad.