[fr_freak]

Los Angeles-San Bernardino for the southern part. Middle part was San Francisco-Vallejo.

Bah! Well, that explains it. With apologies to our Bay Area Freepers, the SF Bay Area is a cultural and political cesspool. You should have checked the Central Valley, especially areas in the Sierra foothills (still only a couple of hours from the ocean and the people are much more conservative). Although I love the ocean, I think I love the mountains more. One of the nice things about CA is that you're always in range of both.

If you've never seen it, you need to check out the election 2004 map by county for CA - the coastline from SF to LA is blue, and pretty much the rest fo the state is red.

[wizr]

Shhhhh... Don't tell them about the mountains. The prices are going up there, already. Mention the snow, all that snow. Yeah, yeah...and the narrow winding roads....and all that WINDERNESS, with aminals. You know, like bears 'n stuff. They won't like it. Whew....close call....uh, are they still reading?