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Hey Rob,
That's California Profiling and I deeply resent it.....haha. Being from North Dakota I have developed a very thick skin when it comes to having fun make of where I'm from.
Really though Rob, if you lived here you would see that just about everyone is from somewhere else including Georgia. Where I work there are lots of folks from the South East US who came here because they could make more than twice as much doing the same job. If I could just live back home in Dakota and make the money I make here I would be rich.
The election thing is not nearly as big a deal as the press makes it to be. They love a good story like this recall. If you lived here you would probably be just a little angry with the way Davis sold us down the river. Remember that back when this whole thing started one of the very first polls showed that almost 90 percent of Californians wanted Davis to go. That says a lot in a state like this. It means that a huge majority of people from his own party thought he should be fired. It also means that the anger was so deep and broad that it crossed all ethnic boundaries. It is very unusual for for so many Californians to all agree on one thing in fact it is probably unprecedented in the political history of this state. If you lived here you would also know that it really doesn't much matter who the governor is anyway. The legislature and the Ninth Circus Court run this state. At least with a Republican as governor there is a chance that some of the wild spending bills would have a chance at a veto that holds.
A big mistake that people make who have never lived here, is forming a picture of what California and Californians are like by what they see in the news and the movies. Of course that picture and reality are not even close. You have the two large metro areas (LA and SF) that get all the coverage and that's what people form their opinions on. Look at a map of California and you will see that outside of those two small areas a very large part of the state is made up of small towns just like the rest of the country. I live in a small town that other than the fact that there is no humidity and you can see the mountains on both sides is probably very much like most towns in Georgia. We grow cotton, corn, and alfalfa. There is no traffic to speak of and the people all have a small town USA type of attitude. No movie stars or movie type of action here. I can jump in my car and be at the beach, desert, snow capped mountains or the big city in a couple hours. Would I rather live somewhere else. Sure ..... I'd like to have a couple thousand acres and my own thousand yard rifle range in Wyoming or Montana.
Nope, sorry Rob, not all of us nut-logs out here have hot tubs, and we are not all environmentalists, and we don't all live movie star lives. Oh by the way, something you won't hear in the news, we are building lots of smaller power plants (one right down the road here), we are not all members of the Sierra Club and I seem to remember an entire country that elected Bill Clinton twice. (LP)
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