“It’s once again become fashionable to bash the Golden State. This time it’s a lot more nasty, partisan, and off-base.
But now, California bashing is coming back in a big way, this time in a much less good-natured form. A national survey commissioned by the Los Angeles Times and conducted January 26–28 found 63 percent of respondents disputing that California is “a good place to raise a family”
Meanwhile, 29 percent of respondents agreed that California is “not really American,” which, even when I was a laid-back California teenager, I’d have understood to be hostile.
Republican antipathy toward California extends beyond the political sphere.”
Conservatives’ Newfound Hatred of California Is Wrong—and Sad | The New Republic
