ORANGE COUNTY ALMANAC : Depression-Era Democrats
Orange County was a stronghold of conservatism long before the administrations of U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Conservative candidates Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover each drew from 78% to 88% of the county’s votes.
But the Depression brought temporary changes, and in 1932 and 1936, county voters cast a majority of their ballots for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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