If San Diego has Republicans, anti-vaccine sentiment is bipartisan

If San Diego has Republicans, anti-vaccine sentiment is bipartisan

But even CDC data can be misused if someone sets out to do so. San Diego County had a measles outbreak in 2008, for example. San Diego itself voted for Democrats Clinton, Gore, Kerry, and Obama in the last few decades and its registration is 35.2% Democrat and 33.8% Republican so that is hardly a Republican stronghold, but since only 3 out of its 5 Congressional seats are held by Democrats, that is considered a conservative bastion to Californians. A measles outbreak there evens out all of the true Democratic anti-vaccine hotbeds, like Marin, San Francisco, Berkeley and Humboldt, which are 80 percent Democrats, right? 

No, it doesn't. An analysis of the anti-vaccine community that was affected showed that the people whose children got measles opted out of vaccines because they believed measles "had already been reduced to very low risk by improvements in water, sanitation, and hygiene and were best prevented by “natural lifestyles,” including prolonged breastfeeding and organic foods."

Government water and organic food would prevent measles? Does that sound like Republicans? Not at all, nor does their professed skepticism of the pharmaceutical industry and mainstream medicine. Wealthy organic food and alternative medicine proponents absolutely scream California progressives and to settle the matter definitively, the schools affected were in progressive clusters.  

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