Reply #24: The Anti-South Bias.... [View All]

has a lot of historical roots--from water policy relatively recently to economic and political envy (the south ended up with more people and muscle) in the 20th century after 19th century dominance by the north. But having been raised in the South and spent the majority of my adult years in the North the past 20 years, I concur that there is a lot less Southern Cal bashing. The progressives are not now just in SF proper. In fact SF proper is really tiny. The progressive numbers start adding up when you bring in people from Oakland/Berkeley, Marin, San Jose, and fanning out into the nice burbs in Contra Costa. Many of these people are transplants who've never been exposed to native SF southern bashing. And the more asian and latin the coastal counties in the South become (transplants) the more the North and South progressives begin to look and speak very much alike. So I wouldn't worry about the progressives in this state. They will become more and more united as the years go by. The task is to establish a government based on reason, wherein the elected leaders are immunized the from the special interests, both those on the left and the right. That's the only way a big "country" like Califiornia can be run. We've seen the other model. It clearly doesn't work.