Letters to the Editor
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Obama & SV - from someone who has actually lived here for decades and knows the area
Santa Clara County is still majority white. Our Asian population is far from being a monolithic voting block comprising as it does well-educated engineers from India and China and also less upwardly mobile groups from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and the Philippines. Unlike SF we have a miniscule black population in our county. Our largest city is San Jose, third largest city in California after LA and San Diego with close to a million people. We have a large population of baby boomers who are old-line partisan Democrats and who either never worked in high-tech or worked in the semiconductor biz in capacities that didn't require a college degree or a high level of technical expertise. Many of them are not computer literate and haven't traveled widely in the US never mind abroad. They're good people but suspicious of change and Hillary is definitely the Dem status quo. It's no surprise that they voted for Clinton. The Clintons are not tech savvy at all. Bill wrote his book longhand for heaven's sake and Hillary is no Al Gore. Farhad may not have lived in the Bay Area for long and certainly doesn't know that much about the valley's demographics.