politics and surfing
This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.
2010 SURFER survey: 30% of readers said they were "middle of the road," 25% said liberal, 17% said conservative, 24% said "politics don't interest me." Surfing and politics intersected for the first time in the early 1960s, as Southern California beach communities—responding to the injury risk posed by mixing board-riders and swimmers, and to counter a perceived threat from "surf hooliganism"—beg...
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