[SoCal Pubbie]

I have heard that the idea of “laid-back Californians” goes all the way back to pre-Columbian times in that local tribes didn’t fight amongst themselves as much as in other areas of North America.

[jcon40]

Agreed, on the whole they were less hostile than other regions The California indians were treated poorly by the Spaniards and later by the U S but many of those tribes were not saints to each other either.