Hell, even Washington and Oregon found them annoying, snooty, condescending, and way too damn liberal, until the transplants corrupted those states into their own image.
California metastasizes.
Oh come on. Washington State has been full of left wing loonies for many years. Go take a look at elected officials back 50 years. It has been a Democrat state, or do you consider people like Scoop Jackson to be closet Republicans?