The rise of Silicon Valley created a huge economic boom in California. An entire industry was created from whole cloth spanning everthing from financial software to video games. It was the wild west financially. Sadly it ended with the .dot.bomb bubble collapse of the NASDAQ in 2002, but the 20-year boom leading up to that bubble was very real.
When I said “There never was a boom.” - I meant in the past 20 years.
They certainly haven’t had a boom under Obama (like all these liberals dirt bags keep telling me there was.)