Orange County's purple hue
IRVINE, California — Orange County was once so reliably red that then-President Ronald Reagan affectionately said the coastal enclave south of Los ...
IRVINE, California — Orange County was once so reliably red that then-President Ronald Reagan affectionately said the coastal enclave south of Los Angeles is 'where good Republicans go to die.' Decades later, Orange County Republicans want to show the area can still be Reagan country or at least something like it. Orange County has become a California political battleground. Democratic presidential nominees have won it twice in a row after an 80-year dry spell for the party going back to 1936. And Democrats have a 3-2 edge on the Board of Supervisors, the county's local governing body.