Orange County Register
AllSides gives Orange County Register a Lean Right rating. In July 2015, an AllSides editor conducted of Orange County Register and gave it an initial rating of Lean Right. This description was updated by a different AllSides editor in July 2020. A Lean Right bias is a moderately conservative rating on the political spectrum. Sources with this rating may moderately show favor for conservative issues such as decreasing government involvement in economic issues, decreasing federal regulations in general, giving more power to state laws, freedom of speech, etc. Orange County Register was owned by Freedom Communications from 1935 to 2016, before it was purchased by Digital First Media in 2016. Freedom Communications was known for its conservative-libertarian editorial voice. Orange County Register is a paid local daily newspaper for Orange County. Coverage area includes Santa Ana, Anaheim, and surrounding cities. It is a member of Southern California News Group (formerly the Los Angeles Newspaper Group), a division of Digital First Media. The newspapers share coverage and printing presses, with a central copy editing and design desk, and staff writers file the same stories for all members of the group, including sharing sports beat writers, which has caused controversy. The newspapers also share editorials and speak as one voice on regional issues.
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“You can vote with your feet in this country. If a state is mismanaged, you can move elsewhere,” Ronald Reagan said during his 1976 presidential run. His opponents criticized him for the comment, but he highlighted a great truth in our federal system. Indeed, our state’s population growth has slowed as Californians flee to places with more-favorable tax and regulatory climates.
The nation has been having a long-needed discussion about racial equality. We’re pleased to see that debate center on criminal-justice reform, but one crucial topic has not received sufficient attention. That involves the way our state’s policies have driven up prices of everything and made it difficult for lower-income people – and particularly minorities – to climb the economic ladder.
The latest evidence of this problem is the subject of a recent CalMatters report about California’s “Black exodus.” The state’s African American population has dropped from 7.7 percent in 1980 to 5.5 percent today as many leave for other states (especially Nevada, Texas and Georgia) that offer better opportunities for homeownership and business creation. Many also are moving from the coast to the state’s inland cities.