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Chapter 156 Mr. Brown
in a villa.

Payton looked polite: "Hello, Uncle Brown."

This Mr. Brown is not the boss of the NBA Green Army, but the leader of the Democratic Party in California, and now California Governor Edmund Brown.

The 53-year-old Mr. Brown looks energetic, which is definitely related to his big victory in the governor's election at the end of last year.

He and Mr. Chris have not known each other for a long time, and he only met after Mr. Chris attended the National Party Conference.

However, due to the new welfare system and Payton’s tongue-in-cheek weapon, Mr. Brown intends to make friends with Mr. Chris, and Mr. Chris also intends to cater to and expand the network of relationships within the party. Gotta have a plastic friend.

After the success of the two previous campaigns, Mr. Chris took Mrs. Chris and his family on a trip.

In the California area, Mr. Brown also specially entertained him for a period of time, and Peyton also got acquainted with the Brown family.

At the end of last year, because of Mr. Chris’s promotion of the welfare system and his attack on the Republican plan, the Democratic mayors and governors in many areas completed their re-election campaigns or counterattacked.

Therefore, this time the election of the governor of California is successful, he must accept the favor of Mr. Chris.

To be precise, except for a very small number of Democratic governors in the traditional range of Texas and Alabama, who are themselves very sure, the rest are seldom unsympathetic.

The welfare storm has earned a lot of favors for Mr. Chris in the party.

Edmund Brown smiled: "Peyton, long time no see, John, how are you?"

Peyton nodded: "Father is in a very happy mood recently."

"That's right, that Jin was arrested, but there was no demonstration, John, you did a good job!"

Edmund Brown sighed a bit. Compared with Chris, as the second governor of the Democratic Party in California in 50 years, his control power is too weak, and the Republican Party has influenced the top and bottom of California.

The day before yesterday's women's rights parade, he was also powerless.

The representatives of the Women's Rights Association supported by the Republican Party didn't like him at all.

In this regard, although he is the governor of California, the first federal state, and Alabama is just a country, he envies Mr. Chris

Moreover, because of Mr. Chris's overall reputation in the Federation, many seniors in the party are optimistic about him as the next Democratic candidate.

Of course, it’s just optimistic. Mr. Chris’s qualifications in the party are too poor. Lyndon Johnson, who has been from an ordinary senator to a party whip to the leader of the Democratic Party, has been waiting for this opportunity for too long...

Martin Luther King was arrested and imprisoned for vagrancy not long ago.

(This is already the Nth time he has been imprisoned. For this Jin, Mr. Chris keeps a close eye on him. Of course, in his words, this is to protect Jin).

Just when the crowd was boiling and the black people were about to organize a march and strike, a speech by Mr. Chris on the Birmingham Brothers radio station successfully prevented the outbreak of the march.

(Birmingham Brothers Radio, a television station in which Rich and Kevin invested, with an 80% loan from the Bank of Alabama.)
He promised on TV that he would only do three things as governor of Alabama—fairness!fair!fair!
The court trial of Martin Luther King Jr. will be broadcast live on TV. Birmingham Brothers TV in the state and Washington Columbia TV outside the state will broadcast the whole process, so that interested citizens from the whole state and even the entire Federation can watch it together.

Be fair and just!
Guilty or innocent depends on the law to decide.

Afterwards, under the trial of the court, Jin was finally sentenced to do community labor and released in court.

The black people in the Birmingham area cheered, held up the head of Mr. Chris, and called him the absolutely fair governor.

Except for a few extreme whites, the rest of the whites don't care about it.

The intensification of racial conflicts needs a background, and it needs economic, military and other contradictions to transfer.

When citizens lose their jobs, have no living environment, and cannot support their own families... Naturally, someone needs to be responsible for this.

Citizens who have nothing to do every day need something else to pass the time.

For this, politicians and capitalists will start to rationally guide public opinion and get rid of the crisis of responsibility... What better targets to blame than another group of people of color?

They took your jobs, they made you homeless, they made the Union mired in war...

Black civil rights, women's rights, and the Black Panther Party's anti-war campaign at the end of the 60s... The reasons for this series of activities are all related to the background of the Cold War, the Federation was dragged into the quagmire of war, and the collapse of the Bretton Woods system cannot be separated...

Today, however, Alabama is full of vitality, the economy is growing at a steady rate, and there are not many contradictions that need to be transferred.

Under such conditions, extremist whites are also a minority.

Moreover, Mr. Chris will blame everything on the law to create a good image. At most, extremist white people think that the governor is too gentlemanly.

A group of reporters took a picture of a black man holding up Mr. Chris's head...and published it in the paper.

Coupled with the previous live TV broadcast, there was a heated discussion.

The incident made Mr. Chriss famous, and (on Paton's cue) the Washington Post crowned him a governor who conquered racial prejudice with charisma, a worthy leader.

Payton smiled: "Didn't Uncle Brown also knock down the Republican Party?"

"Just like they did in the general election, Uncle Brown also planted a blue flag in the territory of the red army in the iron barrel."

The flag planting mentioned by Payton refers to Brown's successful election last year.

Like Alabama, California is not a "purple state" swing state, but a traditional one-party camp.

However, Alabama is the sphere of influence of the Blue Army Democratic Party, which has been operating for hundreds of years.

And California is a "red state" Republican sphere of influence. From 1899 to the present, only during the 20 years when the Democratic Party was the strongest, a Democrat, Governor Olson, completed the flag planting.

It was only planted for one term, that is, four years. With Roosevelt's death, he was driven away.

Today's Edmund Brown is the second Democratic Party member who has successfully ascended to the throne of governor and completed the flag planting. He has been operating in California for decades. With the help of the previous welfare promotion and the support of the whole party, the Democratic congressmen also ran for the As the mayor of Los Angeles, San Francisco and other places, the influence is huge...

It is foreseeable that this time the flag-raising is definitely just the beginning.

The Republican Party's traditional vote base is likely to change!

transition from red to blue
The chain reaction of this incident is huge. The Republican Party passed the bills of Alaska and Hawaii successively before, which has something to do with it.

But it is clear that the two new states are far from enough to make up for their losses.

Let’s talk about voting. Although the people of the federal states actively participate in voting, the president is not elected by them, but by other people. These people are members of Congress.

The Federal Congress is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate has a total of 100 members and the House of Representatives has a total of 438 members.

There are two types of congressmen, one is senators and the other is representatives. Senators are divided by state. Regardless of the size or population of each state, a state has two senators, so there are 100 senators.

Look at the House of Representatives again, this is divided according to the proportion of the population of each state.

The smaller the population, the fewer representatives, but at least one representative, and the larger the population, the more representatives.

The results of the presidential election are determined by the votes of these people. They have one vote per person, and the person with the most votes will eventually become the president.

So if they are the ones who vote, why should voters vote?
This is related to another rule.

Members of Parliament can vote, but who to vote for is not their own decision, but the voters' decision.

For example, in Texas, where 51% of the people voted for A, all congressmen in Texas must vote for A. This principle is called winner-take-all.

This is why the voting results of each state are more or less to zero. The winner can get all the votes of the congressmen, and the loser can't get a single vote.

So how many votes does each state have?

Obviously, there is an absolute relationship with the number of voters in each state.

Because they decide the number of representatives in each state and the direction of voting in each state.

California is the largest state in the Federation, with a population of tens of millions, and the number one in the Federation. There are 53 members of Congress, plus two senators, with 55 votes in the presidential election, which is close to [-]% of the total votes. One, surpassing Texas, the original first-place vote for Democrats.

(Alabama received nine votes last year, Washington state 9 and Texas 11.)
In the two newly added states, the number of voters is too small. Hawaii has 4 votes and Alaska has 3 votes, which add up to less than one-fifth of California.

Now, after Edmund Brown ascended to the governor's throne, it is very likely that the state will be thrown into the arms of the Democratic Party.

And the Republicans will lose that vote.

Once this is the case, it is foreseeable that the next president will miss them, and the federation will return to the Democratic Party

"Hahaha, you can still talk like this, no wonder you can achieve such achievements at such a young age."

"My son is not as sensible as you. He actually studies classical literature. I really don't understand him."

Edmund Brown shook his head, a little dissatisfied.

Peyton will naturally not pick up. Other fathers educate their sons. If you are not sensible to pick up, who cares who you are?
"It's also a good choice for my brother to study classical literature. Maybe he can become a master like O'Neill in the future."

"Oh, forget it, just him, and O'Neill?"

(Note: Before Shaquille O'Neill became famous, people usually referred to O'Neill as Eugene O'Neill, a drama master and Nobel Prize winner. He also marked the maturity of the Commonwealth's theater, regarded by the Confederates as the Shakespeare of the Confederacy.)
"By the way, I heard you started a sports league in Los Angeles?"

Payton shook his head: "No, I just bought a team."

"Haha, almost, why do you suddenly want to invest in sports? I remember you did a good job in Hollywood."

"Well, one is for interest, and the other is to increase the influence of the TV station."

Brown suddenly asked: "Sports broadcast like the Olympics?"

"Not bad, but it should be mostly recording and broadcasting, and the technical conditions are still a bit poor."

"In addition to basketball, we have successively bought the rights to broadcast football, tennis, and NCAA games. The current situation is not bad, and next month will be the key."

Brown nodded and smiled: "The NCAA March is crazy. The whole federation is crazy about it. When I was young, I was also a good swimmer at the University of San Francisco. I was fortunate to participate in it."

Peyton admired: "Uncle Brown must teach me when I have time. I have learned to swim several times, but I have never succeeded. As a result, I dare not go to the beach these years for fear of falling."

"Haha, don't worry, swimming is not too difficult..."

After chatting about homework for a while, Peyton got into the subject thoroughly.

"Uncle Brown, do you follow Standard Oil of California?"

"Of course!"

Standard Oil, this name deserves everyone's attention.

Moreover, Mr. Brown has no reason not to pay attention to this kind of oil giant, and it is in the country.

With that said, Mr. Brown looked at Peyton with doubts: "Why? Are you interested in oil?"

Shaking his head, Mr. Brown persuaded: "Although California is rich in oil, most of them are in the hands of Standard Oil of California and other great oil companies. If you don't understand this industry, don't rush into it."

Peyton smiled slightly: "Thank you uncle for your kind advice."

"However, I have already stepped into this industry, and I have found a place with rich oil content overseas. This time, I am here at the invitation of Mr. Siebel Budge, the president of Standard Oil of California..."

Mr. Brown listened, and his evaluation of Peyton increased in his heart.

He knew about Siebel Budge. He was the president of Standard Oil of California. He came from an extraordinary family, a standard pastor's family. His uncle was a presiding pastor in California, and he was quite influential in the religious circle.

He also has a wife surnamed Rockefeller. The couple hold a lot of shares in Standard Oil of California. Over the years, they have led Standard Oil to develop very well, and they seem to be among the top five giants in the federal oil and energy industry.

Since Payton's overseas oil can attract this person's attention, it means that the oil here must not be simple.

And he knows that Payton has a layout in emerging media, newspaper promotion, traditional clothing production and other industries, and now an energy industry has emerged, and the future is limitless!

"I intend to ask Uncle Brown to be an intermediary..."

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Leave from Mr. Brown's villa area.When Peyton got into the car.

The car started slowly, leaving the slightly bustling streets, and the desolation of this big city was gradually revealed.

The streets are full of thin people wearing old coats, with their hands in their pockets, their backs slightly bent, and their heads lowered, as if something is pressing on them, making them move forward with a heavy load.

There is no laughter, nor the pride of being a citizen of a big city, only a heavier burden than a citizen of a small city.

California is the first state of the Federation, but it doesn't mean that the people here have no worries.

People here don't even believe in tears.

When the car passed through several supply points, there were some similarities with Alabama, and the queue was too long to see.

At the front of the line is the "McDonald's" logo, a group of staff wearing yellow vests, coming and going.

Holding food rolls in their hands, people waited cautiously, and then took a packaging bag from the staff.

"From liquid food to relief food, what do you think?"

The driver complimented: "Mr. Chris must be thanked for giving them nutritious food."

Peyton just smiled: "Maybe."

(End of this chapter)