Here's the problem. First, some personal history: I grew up in MT, volunteered USN, 1965. Post Nam, spent 33 years engineering in CA. Moved back to MT, then WA, Spokane, finally left the west. What you have is a CA state that became populated with valley girl types in the cities, L.A., San Diego, San Fran, etc. When the creeps began their takeover during Reagan (as gov), some citified types began their exodus, which intensified dramatically after GWB. Those leaving were/are primarily city types whose mental capacity is limited to, "I voted for Bill Clinton because I think Hilary is pretty." Unfortunately, those states west are now inundated with that type. MT, for instance, had a pop of 300k prior to the exodus; now, it's around 600k, and is controlled by nitwits. Same is basically true of OR, WA, ID, WY, and on and on. With the advent of those creeps, the vote becomes fixed by them, whatever the natives like or don't like. That extends east into TX, too. Most of my real friends in CA, MT, WA were about as redneck as me. But the real people have been whelmed. So what you need to do is remove the undesirable elements from your power structure: either excommunicate the real areas from their control or excommunicate them, such as Portland, Medford and such. Then you'd be in good shape.