In stunning vote, California's reddest county chooses Bay Area Democrat under California's new congressional map

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In stunning vote, California's reddest county chooses Bay Area Democrat
Travel editor Silas Valentino tours Modoc County as it votes in California's new congressional map for the first time


ADIN, Modoc County — On the afternoon before the primary election last week, Frank Castaneda, a shopkeeper in the remote agricultural town of Adin, was upset. Due to a newly redrawn congressional district map, the election was the first time voters in Modoc County were mushed in with their ideological opposite: voters in Marin County.


“We lost our voice,” Castaneda told me by a window in his general store. “We’re a small community that’s now beholden to the people in the Bay Area.”

Castaneda and his wife, Mariana, took over the Adin Supply Company in April, leaving behind Southern California to embrace conservative values in the farthest northeast corner of the state. That morning, Castaneda said he poured coffee for ranchers who were up all night guarding cattle from the looming threat of wolves. The endangered species is just one wedge between environmentalists in the Bay Area and ranchers in Modoc County. It’s an urgent example to illustrate the stark division in politics between folks in rural and urban California.