You blew it. Only the worst among us would have dared to make a nasty crack on a thread like this, but you went and dared them to anyway.
For your information, I’m a native Californian who spent years fighting the Cali haters here and elsewhere.
You blew it.
Oh well...it’s a new approach. Warn the off before they start with the vulgar nastiness. Here we are in posts in the mid 40s and I haven’t seen the normal anti-Calif vulgarity. Instead, it’s directed at me for posting the warning at the start. Maybe I’m the heat shield on this one. Don’t think I blew it, though.