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Westward Coast of the U.s.a.
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Location of the West Coast (blood-red) in the The states (tan) equally defined by the Census Bureau.
Country	United states of america
Principal cities	Los Angeles San Diego San Jose San Francisco Sacramento Portland Seattle Anchorage Honolulu
Largest city	Los Angeles
Largest metropolitan area	Greater Los Angeles
Area
• Total	1,009,688 sq mi (ii,615,080 km2)
• State	895,287 sq mi (2,318,780 km2)
• Water	21,433 sq mi (55,510 km2)
• Coastal	28,913 sq mi (74,880 km2)
Highest peak (Denali)	twenty,310 ft (6,190.v m)
Lowest meridian [1] (Badwater Basin)	−282 ft (−86 m)
Population (2020)
• Total	53,669,422[a]
Time zone
Mountain	UTC−7:00
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6:00
Pacific	UTC−8:00
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7:00
Alaska	UTC−9:00
• Summer (DST)	UTC−8:00
Hawaii	UTC−10:00

The W Coast of the United States, also known every bit the Pacific Coast, Pacific states, and the western seaboard, is the coastline along which the Western U.s.a. meets the North Pacific Body of water. The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S. states of California, Oregon, and Washington, but sometimes includes Alaska and Hawaii, especially by the The states Census Bureau equally a U.S. geographic division.

With the exception of Alaska, the Democratic Party has dominated West Coast politics in contemporary history, with the states consistently voting for Democrats in elections at various levels. Four out of 5 Due west Coast states have voted for Democrats in presidential elections since 1992, three of which have done so since 1988.

Definition [edit]

There are conflicting definitions of which states contain the West Declension of the United States, but the Westward Coast ever includes California, Oregon, and Washington every bit function of that definition. Under most circumstances, however, the term encompasses the three face-to-face states and Alaska, equally they are all located in North America. For census purposes, Hawaii is part of the West Coast, along with the other four states.^[3] Encyclopædia Britannica refers to the North American region as function of the Pacific Coast, including Alaska and British Columbia. Although the encyclopedia acknowledges the inclusion of Hawaii in some chapters every bit part of the region, the editors wrote that "it has little in common geologically with the mainland states."^[4]

Several dictionaries offering different definitions of the West Declension. Lexico restricts the West Coast's definition to "the western seaboard of the U.Southward. from Washington to California."^[5] However, Macmillan Lexicon provides a less specific definition as "the western coast of the U.Due south., along the Pacific Ocean."^[6] Equally for the Cambridge Lexicon, the Westward Coast is "the area of the Pacific coast in the U.Southward. that includes California."^[7]

History [edit]

The history of the Westward Coast begins with the arrival of the earliest known humans of the Americas, Paleo-Indians, crossing the Bering Strait from Eurasia into N America over a land span, Beringia, that existed between 45,000 BCE and 12,000 BCE (47,000–14,000 years ago). Small isolated groups of hunter-gatherers migrated alongside herds of large herbivores far into Alaska. Between 16,500 BCE and 13,500 BCE (xviii,500–15,500 years ago), ice-free corridors developed along the Pacific coast and valleys of Due north America and possibly by sea.^[8]

Alaska Natives, indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Declension, and California indigenous peoples eventually descended from the Paleo-Indians. They developed various languages and established merchandise routes.^{[ citation needed ]}

Later on, Spanish, British, French, Russian, and American explorers and settlers began colonizing the area.^{[ citation needed ]}

On May ten, 1869 the outset transcontinental railroad was completed joining the West Coast to the East of the U.s.a..

Climate [edit]

The West Coast of the United States has an oceanic climate in its Northwestern, Northern, and Eastern border towards the U.S.-Canada border, but from Northern California, towards the U.S.-Mexico border the climate is mediterranean. While the northern half of the westward coast, particularly coastal Washington and Oregon has moderate rainfall, particularly during the winter months, much of coastal California is drier twelvemonth-circular. The coastline sees significantly balmy temperatures when compared to the inland areas during summer. In far Northern California at that place is a deviation of 17 °C (30 °F) between Eureka and Willow Creek in spite of only 25 miles (40 km) separating the locations and Willow Creek beingness located at a 500 metres (1,600 ft) height. Slightly narrower fluctuations can exist seen all through the coastline, and could partially exist explained by the common cold currents in the Pacific Ocean moderating littoral temperatures and the mount ranges blocking the maritime air from moving farther inland than its foothills during summer. Coastal fog is also prevalent in keeping shoreline temperatures absurd. While famous in the San Francisco Bay Area, littoral fog also affects Santa Monica in Los Angeles, Southern California, leading to May gray and June gloom conditions. Coastal California has very trivial yearly temperature differences with absurd summers similar to those expected in parts of Northern Europe in San Francisco but warmer temperatures yr-round further south. A brusk journey inland and summer temperatures are comparable with the rest of the The states on the aforementioned latitudes, sometimes warmer due to prevailing winds from the Nevada and Arizona hot desert climate. Humidity is far lower on the west declension compared to the eastern seaboard and thunderstorms are uncommon.^{[ citation needed ]}

Government and politics [edit]

State governments [edit]

Governors of the West Coast

Country	Governor	Party		Term
				Start	End
Alaska	Mike Dunleavy		Republican	December three, 2018	2022
California	Gavin Newsom		Democratic	January 7, 2019	2023
Hawaii	David Ige		Democratic	December i, 2014	2022
Oregon	Kate Brownish		Democratic	February 18, 2015	2023
Washington	Jay Inslee		Democratic	January 16, 2013	2025

Ideology and party strength [edit]

In politics, the W Coast usually refers to the contiguous littoral states of California, Oregon, and Washington considering of their similar political leanings. In 2017, The Oregonian columnist David Sarasohn described the W Declension as a "blue wall" of shared values on clearing, abortion, climate change, and civil liberties.^[9] Past 2016, the Due west Declension states legalized marijuana after California voted to do so.^[ten] According to a 2019 Pew Research Center poll, 72% of adults in Pacific states said that "climate modify is affecting their local community at to the lowest degree some", higher than in any other region in the state.^[11]

Since 1992, the three states have voted for Democrats in presidential elections without suspension, but Oregon and Washington also voted for the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988.^[12] Although the iii states accept reliably voted Democratic, no Democratic presidential candidate from whatsoever of the three states has won their party's nomination as of 2020.^[13]

In the 2010s, Democrats strengthened their political power along the W Coast. After winning a special election for a seat in the Washington state senate in 2017, Democrats built a authorities trifecta in all three Westward Coast states.^[14] After the 2018 U.S. House of Representatives elections, Democrats controlled all West Coast congressional districts except Washington's 3rd, represented by a Republican.^[fifteen]

Even though Hawaii is non usually part of the Due west Declension in the political definition, information technology has been a Democratic stronghold. Before achieving statehood in 1959, Hawaii became a state favorable to Democrats to the betoken that they sought statehood for the territory. However, Southern Democrats opposed the move because it would hateful additional votes against their region on several issues.^[16] Since achieving statehood, Hawaii consistently voted for Democrats in presidential elections, except in 1972 and 1984.^[17] In 2016, the Democratic Party unseated the solitary Republican in the Hawaii Senate and controlled all seats in the land's upper firm, which had non occurred anywhere in the land since 1980.^[18]

Unlike to the rest of the West Coast, Alaska has been a reliable state for Republicans in presidential elections. Since achieving statehood, Alaska has voted for the Democratic presidential candidate but one time in 1964. In 1960, the state narrowly voted for Republican Richard Nixon over Democrat John F. Kennedy and had voted for Republicans uninterrupted since 1968.^[nineteen]

Presidential election history [edit]

• Bold denotes ballot winner

Presidential electoral votes in the Pacific States since 1852

Year	Alaska[twenty]	California[21]	Hawaii[22]	Oregon[23]	Washington[24]
1852	No election	Pierce	No ballot	No election	No ballot
1856	No election	Buchanan	No election	No election	No election
1860	No election	Lincoln	No election	Lincoln	No election
1864	No ballot	Lincoln	No election	Lincoln	No ballot
1868	No ballot	Grant	No election	Seymour	No election
1872	No election	Grant	No election	Grant	No election
1876	No election	Hayes	No election	Hayes	No ballot
1880	No election	Hancock	No election	Garfield	No election
1884	No election	Blaine	No election	Blaine	No ballot
1888	No ballot	Harrison	No election	Harrison	No election
1892	No election	Cleveland	No election	Harrison	Harrison
1896	No election	McKinley	No election	McKinley	Bryan
1900	No election	McKinley	No election	McKinley	McKinley
1904	No ballot	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1908	No election	Taft	No election	Taft	Taft
1912	No election	Roosevelt	No ballot	Wilson	Roosevelt
1916	No election	Wilson	No election	Hughes	Wilson
1920	No ballot	Harding	No election	Harding	Harding
1924	No election	Coolidge	No election	Coolidge	Coolidge
1928	No election	Hoover	No election	Hoover	Hoover
1932	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1936	No ballot	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1940	No ballot	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1944	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1948	No election	Truman	No election	Dewey	Truman
1952	No election	Eisenhower	No election	Eisenhower	Eisenhower
1956	No election	Eisenhower	No election	Eisenhower	Eisenhower
1960	Nixon	Nixon	Kennedy	Nixon	Nixon
1964	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson
1968	Nixon	Nixon	Humphrey	Nixon	Humphrey
1972	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon
1976	Ford	Ford	Carter	Ford	Ford
1980	Reagan	Reagan	Carter	Reagan	Reagan
1984	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan
1988	Bush	Bush-league	Dukakis	Dukakis	Dukakis
1992	Bush	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton
1996	Dole	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton
2000	Bush	Gore	Gore	Gore	Gore
2004	Bush	Kerry	Kerry	Kerry	Kerry
2008	McCain	Obama	Obama	Obama	Obama
2012	Romney	Obama	Obama	Obama	Obama
2016	Trump	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton
2020	Trump	Biden	Biden	Biden	Biden
Yr	Alaska	California	Hawaii	Oregon	Washington

Demographics [edit]

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1900	2,634,285		—
1910	iv,448,534		68.9%
1920	v,877,788		32.1%
1930	viii,622,011		46.7%
1940	10,228,556		18.half dozen%
1950	15,114,964		47.8%
1960	21,198,044		40.2%
1970	26,524,131		25.1%
1980	31,799,705		19.9%
1990	39,127,306		23.0%
2000	45,025,637		15.1%
2010	49,880,102		10.8%
2020	53,669,422		7.6%
Source: 1910–2020[25]

Los Angeles is the largest urban center on the West Coast and second-largest in the U.s.a.

According to the results of the 2020 Usa Demography, sixteen of the 20 largest cities on the Westward Coast exist in California. Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, all amongst the pinnacle 10 virtually populous cities in the country, lead the West Declension in population with more than a million people in each city, with Los Angeles existence nearly iii times the size of San Diego's population. Behind these 3 cities, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland are respectively fourth, fifth and 6th in population. Hawaii's majuscule and largest metropolis, Honolulu, is the 13th largest city, and Alaska's largest urban center, Anchorage, is 17th on the West Coast.^[26]

Top 10 Largest Cities on the Due west Declension

Urban center	Urban center Population (2020)
Los Angeles	3,898,747
San Diego	1,386,932
San Jose	1,013,240
San Francisco	873,965
Seattle	737,015
Portland	652,503
Fresno	542,107
Sacramento	524,943
Long Embankment	466,742
Oakland	440,646

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Culture [edit]

Since the West Coast has been populated by immigrants and their descendants more than recently than the East Coast, its civilisation is considerably younger. Additionally, its demographic composition underlies its cultural difference from the residuum of the Usa. California'due south history first as a major Spanish colony, and later Mexican territory, has given the lower West Coast a distinctive Hispanic American tone, which it also shares with the rest of the Southwest. Similarly, two of the three cities in which Asian Americans have concentrated, San Francisco and Los Angeles,^{[32] [33] [34]} are located on the Due west Coast, with significant populations in other Due west Declension cities. San Francisco's Chinatown, the oldest in North America, is a noted cultural middle.

The West Coast also has a proportionally large share of green cities within the The states, which manifests itself in unlike cultural practices such equally bicycling and organic gardening.^[35]

In the Pacific Northwest, Portland and Seattle are both considered amongst the coffee capitals of the earth.^[36] While Starbucks originated in Seattle, both cities are known for small-scale coffee roasters and independent coffeeshops. The culture has as well been significantly shaped by the environment, peculiarly by its forests, mountains, and pelting. This may account for the fact that the Northwest has many high-quality libraries and bookshops (most notably Powell's Books and the Seattle Central Library) and a "bibliophile soul".^[37] The region also has a marginal, but growing independence movement based on bioregionalism and a Cascadian identity.^[38] The Cascadian flag has become a pop prototype at Seattle Sounders FC and Portland Timbers games.^{[ citation needed ]}

Alaska is widely known for its outdoors and its inhabitants engage in a range of activities that are unique to the state. Some of these activities can be experienced through the state'south annual events, such every bit the Iron Dog snowmobile race from Anchorage to Nome and on to Fairbanks. Other events include the Earth Ice Art Championships (Fairbanks) and the Sitka Whalefest (Sitka).^{[ citation needed ]}

Transportation [edit]

Coast Starlight is the primary interstate passenger railroad road provided by Amtrak. Interstate railroad tracks in the Western United States are provided by Matrimony Pacific Railroad. Interstate travel is also served by roads such as the Interstate five freeway and the scenic tourism road, the Pacific Highway (U.s.a.). Sierra High Route is a popular trekking route.

See also [edit]

• British Columbia Coast
• East Coast of the United States
• East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry
• Gulf Coast of the Usa
• Pacific Coast of United mexican states
• Southern California Bight
• Dominicus Chugalug
• Third Declension

Notes [edit]

1. ^ The population total consists of the combined population of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, according to the 2020 United States demography.^[2]

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Coordinates: 39°North 122°W  /  39°Due north 122°W  / 39; -122

East Coast West Coast Distance,

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