Posted on 02/18/2024 8:44:40 PM PST by DoodleBob
… That naysaying has gained much greater currency in recent years as California’s population has contracted for the first time in more than a century.
The “exodus” has become an industry, stoking real estate markets from Nevada to Tennessee, fanning the red-versus-blue political flames and launching a thousand what-went-wrong analyses.
The latest insult — or bracing reality check? — came last week in a Los Angeles Times poll that found 50% of adults nationwide believe California is in decline. (Bummer, man.)
Nearly half the Republicans surveyed said the state is “not really American.” Whatever that means.
L.A. Times columnists Mark Z. Barabak (a proud California native) and Anita Chabria (a happy Ohio transplant) discuss the poll, the hating by haters and the state of their troubled but still much-loved state.
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What do you think, Mark? Are we in fact not American in some fundamental way I don’t understand?
Barabak: I suppose it depends how you define American.
If you’re talking about a certain kind of America — one that is overwhelmingly white and conservative in its social, political and cultural values — than, no, California fails to measure up to that, er, standard.
We’ve been a majority-minority state now for more than a generation. Politically, the state has leaned strongly Democratic for decades, after supporting Republicans for much of our history.
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Chabria: …. California will always stand for diversity, freedom and tolerance — all values that sadly seem to be growing scarcer east of the Sierra…. To me, the poll results say less about life in California than the sad effectiveness of right-wing political propaganda and the power of fearmongering over truth. MAGA needs California to be a villain, to represent the supposed failures of the Democratic Party, especially around crime and immigration, and reality be damned.
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So, you’re saying we should move to Indiana?
Wait, seriously? He's the correct age, and exactly the kind of libtard who would troll this site ... wow, do you recall any of his posts or names?
"Whatever that means" shows the gist of this insane rant, but we do have freedom of speech (so far), even for morons...
More of you Kalifornians should understand this, think about it, pray on it.
I get why Jim and family cannot leave, but I do not get why any Freeper should sit quietly and take the kind of abuse handed out by Sacramento and their MSM nitwits like this old-onan-the-kalifornian and his fugly 'female' protégé, who should be displayed side-by-side in a Long Beach stockade with barrels of free rotten fruit to be pelted with for days.
I was being partly sarcastic, but it is possible that it is the same person.
I can’t keep up with all of all of the names of the one I was talking about, but Allegra and Jane Long may remember a few.
The current name on here is dontsteponsnake.
Come to think of it, it probably isn’t the same person.. while being OCD about defending Kalipornia, he is on our side (conservative and pro-Trump).
OH, SNAP!! He is ZoTTeD and I didn’t even know it!
(I should stop picking on him since he is on our side.. but he needs to grow thicker skin :^P ... Just noticed he may not be pro-Israel..)
Only if you can play a banjo.
Don't spill the beans.
One of the names was charles_covington and I think he might have been a shot & mask fan during the scamdemic.
I can’t remember any of the several others offhand. We should probably keep a list.
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