Ironically, that's how California got to be the way it is -- refugees from the East and Midwest coming in and bringing their liberal crap with them. Take it from a fifth generation native. Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer are prime examples -- it drives me nuts that the world thinks of those two bozos as Californians; they were born, raised, and educated in the east, didn't move here until they were well into adulthood, and AT THAT moved to San Francisco, the only city that Easterners have considered half-way civilized since before the Gold Rush (L.A. remains to this day much too uncouth and uncultured for their notice).
California used to be a pretty conservative, Republican state, mostly rural agricultural (it still is mostly rural agricultural, in fact). I talk to a lot of people in my work, and easily 90 percent of them moved here from some other state or country. Almost all of the vegetarians, vegans, and uber-liberal "Californians" of my personal acquaintance were not born here; of the few who were, their parents were not. Some exceptions, of course, but not many.
My mother, on the other hand, was raised by native Californians .. who were raised by native Californians ... who were raised by native Californians ... all conservative Republicans, going way way back.
The very utmost of independent-minded, risk-taking people pioneered this state and made it cool. ONLY THEN did the Liberals come in and ruin it, beginning (in my memory) in the late 60s.
Hey, remember -- Free Republic was born here. It isn't a California native for nothing, you know!
So true...I've been here since '56 and I remember the California you speak of. It has now been reduced to an illegal Mexican working class and a ruling elite composed of transplanted hypocritical liberal snobs....(Press 1 for English and 2 for Spanish)