San Francisco?
Silicon Valley?
Sonoma?
And I remember driving up the coast to the Oregon border and seeing mostly hippies once they killed the logging industry.
For most of us who live in northern cali SF is not considered northern Cali. If you look on a map, that is a stretch it is in the central part of the state. And you do need to look at a map, hopefully a topo map. You forgot the entire sierra nevada mountain range and the southern cascades in your shortsighted view of the logging industry here. The area you omitted is larger than most other states.