"California, and specifically Southern California, was key to Barry Goldwater's surprising 1964 GOP nomination victory. Goldwater's rough-hewn combination of a crusty, antigovernment attitude and extreme bellicosity against communism—which he saw as an unacceptable threat to American individualism—resonated deeply in Southern California at the time.
"But the Goldwater surge was preceded by a mini-movement Heinlein tried to create in 1958 with the 'Patrick Henry League,' dedicated to the notion that the truest expression of U.S. liberty was preparing for a fight to the finish with international communism."
Brian Doherty in the Los Angeles Times argues that science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was "the bard of Southern California."
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