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How Democrats in rural Northern California, deep in MAGA country, are growing stronger
Angelina Cook, a Democrat running for the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors, at the party's booth at the Siskiyou Golden Fair in August 2023. - Xavier Mascarenas/The Sacramento Bee/TNS

How Democrats in rural Northern California, deep in MAGA country, are growing stronger

Alice Rogers admitted that identifying as a Democrat in Siskiyou County felt a bit “like coming out.” She stood under a canopy of tall trees in Weed’s Carrick Park on a warm June afternoon along with about 100 other local Democrats at the county party’s annual fundraising dinner. Like many Democratic women across the U.S., Rogers, the chair of the Democratic Central Committee of Siskiyou County, and Robin Richards, the committee’s treasurer, were called to action after the election Donald Trump in 2016, as they watched their Republican neighbors ride the MAGA wave further to the right. “I didn...

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