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.
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So Mr. Camarillo...a "History Professor"....starts off surprised..and then basically gives three good reasons why. ROFLOL!!!!
I'd say guy's like Camarillo are part of the problem in CA. He's likely a Liberal Democrat.......and has no problem with rampant illegal immigration to CA. either.
Pretty good description......
Boy,have you hit the nail on the head.
Nobody loves you when you’re down and out.
Now living in OK....it's also a hellhole.
Hotter than hell in the summer...colder than hell in the winter.
Ticks bigger than puppies, mosquitoes the size of chicken hawks.
Never mind the twisters and earthquakes.........
http://goldenbeetle.com/Testimonials.html
However, the politics are atrocious. Everything wrong with the state flows from that. The business climate. The taxes. The cost of living. The judicial inanity. The erosions of liberty. The debt.
With help from the Supreme Court's Reynolds v. Sims in the late 60s, giving us all proportionate state senate districts, CA became a state controlled by mega cities, some of the highest cost, highest crime, worst managed places you'd imagine in the state. As a result, that same failed formula seized control has been replicating to other localities like a cancer.
The state is lost to reason.
Even the moderates and liberals know this. That's why ballot measures try to wrestle some things back to sanity from the extremists who get into the legislature. We've tried term limits for 20 years. They failed. Now we're trying primaries where any "top two" advance to the general. That will fail as well.
With total supremacy over the state within reach as soon as November's election, Democrats will again try to restrict or eliminate the initiative process so the People cannot question their rulers' edicts.
A lot of the outside hatred of CA is a media myth from both conservative and liberal voices. The state is not going bankrupt; "the reset of you" won't have to "bailout" California. The GDP to debt ratio is easily manageable. The California State GDP is enormous even in bad economic times, California residents pay more federal taxes then they get back in federal services. That's not true for most states and it irritates me when people from states that take more in federal services than they pay in federal tax attack California.
Pretty complimentary picture of Boxer..............and frankly of Senator Plastic...too.
When they were the Indians they did, they took scalps whenever they pleased.
Now they're just the Reds, and they act like it.
They're eclipsed by Redwood trees, and logic nearly as well, but you'll never hear it from him.
Another idiot heard from. Idaho takes $1.14 per dollar of taxes paid to the federal government. California takes $0.78 per dollar of taxes paid to the federal government. Now tell Californians again why they deserve to be hated while you sit in a federal funding addicted state subsidized by California’s hard-working residents.
When CA asks for a bail-out from the other “56” states....will you apologize to us? : )
Yeah, the "Cardinal" is dumb...and the tree mascot is beyond dumb.
I'm part Indian...and I'd be all for them changing the name back.
Actually ... LA will become an Island, or at least the western part of it. It is already on the Pacific Plate.
The eastern part of LA will become rubble, buried under the pacific plate.
And those hills where you are sipping tea - will become an inland sea.
I don’t hate California, just the people in it.
I know,
I know (I pay attention)
and that's why I'm so obnoxious while accurate.
I mean...more population, more collected monies.
For sure...CA has more people on the dole...than Idaho. Per capita, probably not. But I don't know.
Of course there's plenty of hardworking American's in very state.....you no doubt agree with that. Right?
BTW..I was born and raised in SoCal. I have family still there....My oldest daughter moved back there. I don't hate Californians.....I do hate what's happened to the state, since I was a kid.
FWIW-
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