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Tonight, Democrats will wrap up their national convention with a speech from their presidential

nominee, Joe Biden.

Next week, it's the Republican's turn, and President Donald Trump will take center stage.

Now there's no question that today the 9 County Bay Area is solidly blue, but it hasn't always been this way.

Bay curious listener Marcus wants to know, when and why did the Bay Area become

overwhelmingly liberal? You chose Marcus's question in our March public

voting round and today we'll bring you some answers. I'm Olivia Alan Price and

this is Bay Curious.

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If you ask some of the biggest names in Bay Area politics

when the region became so liberal, you get a lot of different answers.

And I think it begins with the origins of the city in the gold rush.

So sometime around 1850.

But maybe it was more like the 1950s with the beats.

There was this whole subculture of, you know, pot smoking, jazz-loving, poetry, writing, painting-making people.

Or maybe it was 10 years later.

If you had to look at the one seminal event

that changed things, it was the passage of the Civil Rights Act in

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