As a lifelong Californian I want to point out something to the vast group of California haters.
First off, we Californians are not a homogenous group of liberals. There are 52 counties in California. Over 30 of them routinely vote Republican.
Most of the “California Liberals” are transplants from other states, (Pelosi, Feinstien, most Judges on the 9th Circuit Court, our Governor, and so on.) Native Californians are self reliant adventuresome hard working people, descended from those brave Americans that had the gual to leave the genteel urban centers and farm communities back east, to cross wide open plains, terrible mountain ranges, and unforgiving deserts.
We created a beautiful and productive, with outstanding farms, orchards, and ranches in our State. Then we were beset upon by the “enlightened hoardes” of easterners too numerous to mention.
These pests show up here and flock to urban centers and take them over like a virus, creating more viruses. But they are predominately confined to the seaboard. Leaving those forsaken coastal cities is like leaving socialist Europe for an inland California full of hard working agrarian Americans, such as Victor Davis Hanson.
If you had a state the size of California on the eastern seaboard, it would stretch nearly from Jacksonville, FL to Boston, MA. Are you going to try and tell me that all those people living within that area are of the same mindset?
There are over 30 other counties, some much larger than eastern states, full of real Americans.
In this global war on terror, as was the case in Vietnam, no state has sacrificied more of its young lives in our nations wars than California.. NONE.
Predominately, those young lives are guys just like me, (a Veteran of both Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom) we come from the small farm towns and hard urban neighborhoods, and we kick ass.
Please don’t stereotype us. All Californians are not the same. I have no intention of leaving. I hope the State does collapse, because maybe then this liberal pox will return from whence it came.
