I lived there for more than forty years, and my family goes back several generations in California. I remember the Seventies and Eighties, when the lunatics all came there from somewhere else, and were open and proud of that, and joked about it.
If California could have sealed it's borders in the mid Sixties, it'd probably be a solid red state today. I feel for the neighboring states when they complain about 'Californians' moving in and screwing things up the way they did in California. As far as I'm concerned though, most of them were never really Californians to begin with.
We have lunatics moving out of the North East to Florida. A lot of them are conservative for that region. Here they are raging liberals when compared to conservatives here.
They are bringing their stupid ideas with them.
Bingo. I went to California for graduate school and had a very very good reason for being there at the time. I was amazed at the milieu of ne'er do nothings and ne'er do wells that migrated from somewhere else, all doing " a bit of this and a bit of that" and asking me how much I liked it there. Then as I met actual native Californians I discovered that they were decent civilized hard working folks, like an old uncle of mine who lived in the real Berkeley back before it became the modern Berkeley. They were also horrified to watch this beautiful place that they had helped build sink into a cess-pool of drifters and grifters.
I don't know whether there is much if any of the old California left any more.