Yep. Westward Expansion hit a wall at the Pacific. Nothing else to explore so the Californians turned inward, went looney and exported it back across the country.
Ya have it wrong pilgrim. You been eaten the bad corn.
Lister.........it was you're kin fold that head out to the west, to California, etc.....They got cold, ate each other, and in the 2000's started losing their shorts, can't hack it, and or the state gov gang raped them....Ya unnnerstand pilgram?
Now some of them are hauling ass. It'll be waitin for um.