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haele

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1. Nixon was an Orange County "Quaker". A most peculiar branch of Quakerss.
Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:40 AM
Jan 5

I know several from Quaker families that settled in OC when it was orange groves and ranchland sold off from old Spanish Charter families that had morphed from White Mexican-American farmers and ranchers to White professionals and real estate speculators/developers with Latino names. Flan folk, as it were.
Orange County Quakers tend to be simple, peaceful, "welcoming" middle class folks who have no problems at all with people who kept to their god-mandated - state if you know what I mean...
Nor did they have any problems with Sundown towns, even after then- Governor Brown directed in the 1970's that intimidation and curfews of groups of people to leave public spaces based on race or religious affiliation was illegal in the state of California.
All those tall hills with crosses on them in California? They aren't memorials to WWI/WWII fallen or to some non-existent Spanish Mission or Mission run coach stop.
Those hilltop crosses were 1920's -1950's real estate shorthand for "This is a Covenant community - Whites only, and no Jews, either."

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