What in the world is wrong with the people on the Pacific Coast? Someone must put heroin in the water systems to produce a majority of people with such screwed up judgment. The rest of the nation has nothing in common with their unamerican attitudes which weaken the country.
This is exactly why our union was envisioned as a federation of states with rights that kept them mostly in control of their own destiny WITHIN the union. Once the federal government starting taking money from one state and giving it to another, of course states would end up helping to pay for programs and cultures that they had little in common with.
It's not supposed to work that way. This is one of the greatest harms done by federal wealth transfer payments. Those payments actually weaken the Union over time because people become less and less tolerant of the states that use our money in ways we don't agree with.
There's liberalism all over. Try Austin TX.