They are shocked to find that California consists of more than San Fran, Hollyweird and the newsrooms. So is the rest of the country.
It should be noted that the poling data shows that it was the Black vote that carried the day for prop 8. Maybe some of them are paying attention or is it that they don’t want to share minority privilege?
That’s just evidence that they voted for Obama on one factor. In a normal universe, that would be called “racism.”