Why is it that liberals who got fed up with California insanity decided to move to conservative neighboring states and then proceeded to elect people who propose California solutions?
They read Ecotopia by Callenbach and The Velvet Monkeywrench by Muir, that told them how to be change agents focusing on this region. Like The Harrad Experiment by Rimmer in the sexual domain, none of this is an accident. There is a seed book for all of this change, example see Spiritual Materialism by Trungpa, that kicked it off.