In this article, the title setup the first line.
And facepalm city followed.
I, admittedly, expected the tale to be from San Fran or Berkeley.
No, San Diego county.
That was pretty much the only real surprise after a fashion.
The way the country is going strange, it could have been from Kentucky or New Mexico.
Like you noticed, though, even the California misbehavior happened in a less-crazy area of California.
Just please be careful with stereotypes. They can sometimes blind you to things that are not well. Suppose you heard a news story about a misbehaving New York politician and then found he was on the other side of the state from New York City and was even a Republican.