Oh one thing to think about: Los Angeles - the last place we had a religious revival from - has traditionally been significantly, substantially, literally one of the more pro-Nazi parts of America.

Has to do mostly with migration patterns, boomed with a lot of Scando-German midwesterners (and after WWI a lot of German-friendly ex-Ottoman immigrants).

Like, all this was masked by the way its WWII effort was locally understood as mainly against Japan (which helped align California’s substantial non-Japanese Asian population, identifying with lands colonized by the Japanese Empire)

Like there were actual Nazi cults in the hills, the whole surfer hippie thing was a recapitulation of German wandervogel with actual Nazi mystic elements, the Falling Down surplus store with the secret Nazi room (and kinda the Gimp in Pulp Fiction) and American History X reflected real LA things.

Police forces usually lag their local populations (an interesting exception is how the Boston Irish used it to push out the older WASPs) and like, “the LAPD is a bunch of Nazis”, no that was real (so is “they since retired and helped settle Northern Idaho as an armed white ethnostate”)

That means The Rocketeer, where the hero fights the Nazis from 1938 LA, is kind of a nyah-nyah from the 80s (punk, anti-Reagan) antifascist tendencies