Got news for you, pal. They didn’t start in California.
Cali didn’t invent liberalism. At one time we were quite
conservative. Remember a guy named Reagan?
When the libs got a toe hold they liberalized the
state welfare system. In response, governors loaded
the buses w/poor folk from many parts of the
country and aimed them westward. Looks like the
buses are turning around.
They didn’t have to load the busses, at one point California gave cash bennies without any major vetting. I chatted with a car dwelling wanderer at the gas station I worked in Virginia who migrated out here in winter to go on the dole and returned in the spring to the east.
If you put feed out for pidgeons, they will come.