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I think you have to separate whether California is a good social and cultural role model from whether it is a good economic role model. Social liberals will na

I think you have to separate whether California is a good social and cultural role model from whether it is a good economic role model. Social liberals will naturally see inclusive (relative to the rest of the country), majority-minority California as a success story. Cultural conservatives will continue to regard it with distrust. But the questions raised in this article are primarily economic, and I think the point about inequality is particularly salient given which party holds power.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
A handful of (mostly) coastal states manage to exempt themselves from criticism for how their culture and government policy unnecessarily makes being being less than wealthy a bigger pain in the butt than it needs to be by saying "look, we have legal weed and easy to get abortions, look how great we are!" and ignoring the economic reality that their government/society imposes on people who are living paycheck to paycheck or worse. I really don't like it. The issues that the upper classes in states like to pat themselves on the back about are a lot farther down the hierarchy of needs than being able to afford to register your vehicle. It's not even a left or right thing, it's a whether or not people have to spend time/money/effort jumping through hoops (thereby driving up the cost of living) set up by the government thing. States shouln't be measured by how nice it is to be "average" there, they should be measured by how shitty it is or isn't if you're just scraping by.