***Too late. You saw what happened in Colorado. ***
Forty years ago the most common bumper sticker in Colorado was..”DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!”
Well, they have, and taken my beloved New Mexico with it.
I think it's naive to put the all blame on Californians. There was a *huge* migration of hippies and rich East Coast liberals to Colorado to take part in the 1960s' "Rocky Mountain High." The "Aspen Effect" has polluted most of the formerly conservative West with big-city liberalism.