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FDR made it a blue bastion – now it’s Trump’s stronghold in California. Is it forever lost?
<p>Shasta has embraced the Maga movement with gusto – can Democrats ever win back the rural, working-class voters they once relied upon? </p><p>A crucial election was approaching and the country was desperate. Despite promises that economic conditions were improving, nearly a quarter of the US was out of work as voters headed to the polls in 1932.</p><p>It was the darkest time since the civil war, a period so dire that in California’s capital people fought each other for work. In early 1931, a crowd of 200 men scuffled over a handful of temporary jobs moving back-breaking loads of granite, the Sacramento Bee reported.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/democrats-california-shasta-county-trump">Continue reading...</a>
GB Oct 25, 2026The Guardian World Read the full report