Your description of your governor leads me to believe you live in the Peoples Republic of Washington.
Good guess... When my wife and I were growing up once you got out of the Seattle area, this was actually a conservative place. Of course, on the Eastern side of the Cascades in still is. But now when we go to the grocery stores and Costco near our home, the number of people even speaking English are less than half a good percentage of the time. I said to my wife that I have no problem accepting a certain number of outsiders while they assimilate into our society. But that is not what is happening here... we are being replaced. Native Washingtonians are now a minority in the state that we grew up in.