Actually, I think she's from Baltimore. She's one of the ultra-lefty invaders that descended on California like a swarm of locusts and destroyed it.
I remember California before they took it over. I miss it.
Yup. It was a paradise, wasn't it? My uncle got there in the 30's; wish I could have seen it then. Even in the 60s and 70s, when I was a kid, it was an almost mythical place of prosperity and possibility, with dear old Ronald Reagan as governor.
For nearly 400 years the most stubborn, independent people in our country kept moving West. Fifty years ago, if you wanted to see the descendants of the Pilgrims and Puritans, you would look to the leading edge of westward migration in California, not Massachusetts. Now the looters and moochers and loafers who followed the pioneers have swamped the entire country except for a few pockets in the Midwest and Rockies.