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Information on the 43rd District of California
For many years the gateway to the Los Angeles Basin was San Bernardino,
situated on flat land where the route through the twisting, windy Cajon Pass
took passengers on the Santa Fe Railroad and motorists on U.S. 66 from the
hot and dusty high desert to the greener, tree-lined basin. There were
orange groves around the little railroad towns and vineyards to the west;
this was an agricultural zone until World War II, when Henry J. Kaiser built
the West Coast's first major steel mill between the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific lines in Fontana, just west of San Bernardino. Today these lands
have largely filled up.
The Inland Empire is ideally situated between the beautiful Pacific Ocean
beaches and the ski resorts of the San Bernardino Mountains. It also has
some of the lowest real estate prices in the Los Angeles Basin and in the
1980's, a thriving small business economy developed. In this Inland Empire,
San Bernardino County grew from 895,000 to 1,418,000 in the 1980's.
The Forty-third Congressional District of California consists of San
Bernardino and the towns running west--Colton, Rialto, Fontana, Bloomington,
and Ontario.
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