It will never happen now, but too bad it didn't happen 20 or 30 years ago. California is mostly red by geographical area, but even the red counties have been ruined now, and they are just as depressing to live in as the blue counties. My county was a vibrant, self sustaining, productive county when I grew up, thanks to the lumber industry. Now everybody who is not unemployed and living off the government directly works for the government (now the largest employer), medical industry (almost the same thing), or Indian gambling casinos (largest single employer in my county). And the attitudes of people living there reflect the change too, and it is not good. People know when they are a productive community and producing good stuff (lumber products in our case) that the rest of the world needs and wants and is willing to pay for, versus leeching off of the productivity of others or leeching off of wealth created in the past. As a third generation native Californian this is very depressing.
Hey, people need marijuana. :)