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Why do so many people hate California?
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 2/23/12 | Emily Wilkins, Hearst Washington Bureau

Posted on 02/23/2012 1:31:25 PM PST by SmithL

Surf. Sun. Disneyland. What’s not to love about California?

Well, apparently, a lot of things. In a poll released Tuesday by the Public Policy Polling, California was the least popular state in the United States. Only 27 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of the Golden State compared to the 44 percent who view it unfavorably.

“There’s this arrogance about Californians,” said Patrick Dorinson, a radio host in California who refers to himself as the Cowboy Libertarian. “Californians still think it’s this great star. It’s a tarnished star at this point.”

The gap of 17 points puts California far behind Illinois (19 favorable, 29 not) and New Jersey (25 favorable, 32 not) as the least liked state in America.

“I’m actually quite surprised California fared so poorly,” said Albert M. Camarillo, a professor of history at Stanford University. “I think the national public knows of our difficult budget situation, our higher than average unemployment rate, the still very expensive housing market.”

The “Left Coast” is distinct in another way – more people have an opinion about California than any other state – only 28 percent of respondents couldn’t decide whether they liked the state or not.

(Excerpt) Read more at blog.sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: SmithL

For the same reason they’ve hated Michigan for so long. The difference is that we’re actually trying to fix Michigan.


21 posted on 02/23/2012 1:43:17 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: SmithL

I’m a Californian, but the criticisms are quite valid. If my wife’s and my jobs were not geographically tied to this place, particularly hers, I doubt we would be here. (A conservative-leaning suburb of Austin seems appealing, or maybe Savannah or Charleston, SC.)


22 posted on 02/23/2012 1:43:17 PM PST by pogo101
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To: SmithL

Duuuuuuuude! On a clear day, UCLA.


23 posted on 02/23/2012 1:43:51 PM PST by tumblindice (He walks, he talks, he crawls on his belly like a reptile--The Fake American President)
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To: SmithL

24 posted on 02/23/2012 1:44:24 PM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: SmithL

I hate the California Air resources Board setting my air pollution control requirements in North Dakota.


25 posted on 02/23/2012 1:45:33 PM PST by Last Dakotan
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To: SmithL

If Orange County, San Diego County, and the Inland Empire broke away to form a 51st state, that would be one nice 51st.


26 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:01 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: SmithL
Why do so many people hate California?

California voters.

27 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:21 PM PST by surely_you_jest (Mitt Romney is the Latter Day incarnation of Joe Isuzu.)
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To: SmithL
One word...


28 posted on 02/23/2012 1:46:47 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: pogo101
I’m a Californian,

Me too. The state has really fallen down. Sad to say. The left has just about completed its death-grip on our legislature and it is anti-business and getting more anti-family every day. Sad, because I really love this state. Our lives are wrapped up here or we might be moving too.

29 posted on 02/23/2012 1:47:00 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: New Jersey Realist
I don’t hate them, but they do seem to be liberal freaks.

Yeah, why do liberals always want to use the word "hate" just because someone chooses to stay as far away from them as possible?
30 posted on 02/23/2012 1:47:17 PM PST by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: SmithL
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31 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:03 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: GeronL

Four more

KaliFreakaFornia

TaxiFornia

Land of Fruits - Flakes - & - Nuts

HollyWierdaFornia


32 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:06 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SmithL

Liberal control has destroyed this once great state.

It should be a lesson to all the other states out there that liberal give-aways don’t work. They just created more dependency and bankrupted the state.


33 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:27 PM PST by Bullish (Recovery won't begin until Obama loses HIS job.)
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To: rigelkentaurus
Good idea... but can we have our original borders??


34 posted on 02/23/2012 1:48:49 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I’m sure the list is endless . . .

>Sanctuary Cities

>Anti business attitude and regulations in government, which is run by

>Democrats

>The state foists upon the rest of the country politicians like Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, who export their damaging policies to Washington DC and thus the rest of the country

>People in the know know that the state will need a bailout within three years

>I'll leave it there for the moment

35 posted on 02/23/2012 1:50:58 PM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: SandRat

Libfornia

Leftafornia

Port-o-Pedo


36 posted on 02/23/2012 1:52:11 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: SmithL
While I believe that the Statistics and reasons for dislike of California are actually more serious (worse) than the poll indicates, I would like to make one point:

There are really two California's.

The Nine San Francisco Bay Area counties, LA county, Sacramento metropolitan area, and the coastal hippie dopers clustered along the higher North state coastline are one California, a very sick and destructive entity.

The rural agricultural and husbandry California is the other.

The rural Californians are, for the large part, normal people at the mercy of the urban Fascists, and there is no mercy.

Fascist California should be classified as a biological weapon of mass destruction, the description fits.

37 posted on 02/23/2012 1:53:32 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it. (plagiarized))
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To: SmithL

My wife is German American and doesn’t understand why one of her Jewish friends didn’t like Germans.


38 posted on 02/23/2012 1:53:35 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: pogo101

I did 6 years in silicon valley and got out. My daughter just moved to Savannah—nice culture with lots of historical sites. Nice in winter but potentially uncomfortably hot in summer.

Austin is the liberal armpit of texas. Don’t go there.


39 posted on 02/23/2012 1:59:33 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: SmithL

Why not.


40 posted on 02/23/2012 2:00:57 PM PST by discostu (I did it 35 minutes ago)
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