California’s Anti-Government Sentiment Among Surfers Is Real And Its Political Translation Is Complicated
The Surf Community’s Freedom Values Don’t Map Cleanly Onto Either Major Party; The Result Is A Community That Is Politically Underserved By Both
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
CALIFORNIA — The Southern California surfing community’s political values — individualism, freedom, environmental consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, suspicion of corporate and government power alike — do not map cleanly onto the Republican or Democratic party platforms. The Republican offer (reduced regulation, lower taxes, less government) appeals to the anti-regulation instinct while conflicting with the environmental values and the specific experience of regulatory capture by real estate and development interests. The Democratic offer (environmental protection, coastal access preservation, worker protections) appeals to several surf community values while conflicting with the instinct toward individual freedom over collective regulation.
What The Surf Community Actually Votes
California coastal communities vote Democratic by significant margins — environmental policy, reproductive rights, and the general cultural alignment of coastal California with the Democratic coalition outweigh the anti-regulation instinct in actual voting behaviour. The libertarian framing of surf politics better describes the community’s self-image than its revealed preferences. Surf Revolt covers the political alignment. Bohiney covers the self-image gap comedy.
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