If you get away from the Coast, and Sacramento, most of the areas are pretty normal. There were ~12 Congressional seats stolen by the Democrats through 'ballot harvesting' in the last election. Voter theft (enhanced by ballot harvesting, illegals, and plain illegal voting) - which is 'encouraged' by the State - makes the State look worse than reality. If you judge 'reality' by the citizens. If you judge 'reality' by the votes - yeah, we pretty much suck.
Glad I got out of there...