YEP; 5th generation native Californian here; the Eastern COMMUNISTS (I don’t call them liberals because they are COMMUNISTS) started coming here during and after WW-2.
Unfortunately they brought their socialist/communist ideas with them and raised all their college bound kids that way.
That gave us places like Berkeley in the early 60’s, and what we have to suffer with today came directly from those people.
I would be willing to bet that there isn’t a single person in the state house with a greaser last name that if you traced their ancestry back a generation and a half, you would find that their parents or grandparents are ILLEGAL ALIENS.
Same goes for some of the Chinese that are now in public office.
HA!
You’re right. Communists. I stand corrected.
Like you, I can remember when San Francisco was still rather decent and people “dressed up” to shop in the stores downtown. Women wore hats and gloves. Delightful.