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Orange County was but a trifling gas stop on the way to San Diego, once a major outpost of the John Birch Society, the jurisdiction where the Ku Klux Klan, in 1924, briefly ran the city of Anaheim.

A gay Republican club thrives in the county, and gay civil rights attorney John Duran says: “Orange County is not the conservative monster that it’s made out to be. I think it’s more libertarian.”

Historian Sleeper has noted the tale of the minister who announced that his text for Sunday was drawn from the St. John Subdivision, Block 3, Lot 6.

His SW19 final in 1980 against American rival John McEnroe - when McEnroe saved seven championship points in a near four-hour epic - is seen as one of the best tennis matches of all time.

There's not even a hardy royal perennial like Sir David Beckham or Sir Elton John.