Friday, November 7, 2025

Greatest protest against Prop 50 in California from state's northeast corner

California voters passed Proposition 50--the law that dramatically gerrymandered the state's Congressional districts--by a wide margin (64% to 36%) on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4.   Here's the county-level map of the vote, where you can see that the most intense opposition was in the far northeastern part of the state, in Modoc (population 8,700) and Lassen (population 32,730) counties.   Read more coverage here from CalMatters, here from KRON4 News out of San Francisco, and here from Eyewitness News 7, dateline Auburn California.  This post from a few weeks ago collects coverage of the proposition from earlier this fall, and this one from late August also explores the proposition through a ruralist lens. 

I'll be writing more soon about post-election responses to the vote, especially from rural California.  

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