I take exception to your remark that California drove out manufacturing.
It really was the federal government that has done this, aided and abetted by globalist governors like Jerry Brown and Arnold Scharzenegger who make big money from their associations with Indonesian and Chinese dictators, for selling off California’s assets and contracts to the communists.
The federal government set into motion the corruption of the rule of law and the US Constitution with ‘free trade’ and executive orders forcing ‘harmonization’ throughout the government with international governmental agencies.
Corrupt state officials wholeheartedly jumped on the bandwagon following massive campaigns to corrupt local government by foreign governments (mexicos ‘embassies’ scattered every in the country) and international governmental bodies like ICLEI wining and dining local government officials at ‘confereneces’ where everything is ‘free’ and the agendas and programs are private so citizens don’t know what their elected officials are up to.
The federal government turns a blind eye to the unconstitutional actions of state governors, who essentially are treaty making with foreign governments, because they too are ‘investors’ in communism and slave labor abroad.
Pardon me for not including similar problems in other jurisdictions not included in the discussion.