California’s Orange county was once a conservative bastion. Can it swing the balance of the US House in 2024?

Dramatic political and demographic changes have made Ronald Reagan’s domain one of the few true purple regions in a deeply divided country

In the battle between Democrats and Republicans for control of the US House of Representatives, one region could hold the key to victory – Orange county, California’s historically conservative heartland.

For decades, the region – perhaps most famously described by Ronald Reagan as the place “where the good Republicans go before they die” – was a Republican stronghold and a hotbed for radical conservatives.