Adding to @gamblor956 comments, the greater bay area - where I've lived for a quarter century - is still dominated by old money country club types with a separa

Adding to @gamblor956 comments, the greater bay area - where I've lived for a quarter century - is still dominated by old money country club types with a separate highly transient population coming and going. The latest waves have been tech. The european concepts of 'liberal' and the US version (especially on the west coast which is completely different culturally to the east coast) causes endless confusion as like so many words in the English language mean different things on different continents and even places.