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Glenn County is situated in the Central Valley north of Sacramento. Interstate 5 bisects the county
from north to south, and the Sacramento River defines its eastern boundary with Butte County.
Forty-one years after California became a state in 1850, Glenn County was carved out of
Colusa County and named
for Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, the most important wheat grower in California at the time. (Same old same old.
If you're the most important whatever, a majority of politicians will accommodate you.)
Like all of the Central Valley, Glenn County is politically, socially and religiously conservative.
Its citizens voted decisively for George Walker Bush in 2000 and 2004 and for John Sidney McCain III in 2008.
The last Presidential candidate from the Democrat [sic] Party to carry Glenn County was Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964 and only by
a few percentage points.
Glenn County supported California Proposition 8 by a margin of three to one. As reported by
the San Francisco Chronicle in the article, Same-Sex Marriage: A Town Where It's Hard to Say 'Gay',
Glenn County does not welcome homosexuals. That's a shame, because they've started pressing some decent olive oil and
could use our business.
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