there might be insight there, but.. too broad brush. As "everyone knows" Silicon Valley started as a dot-mil fab but California invented the personal computer a

there might be insight there, but.. too broad brush. As "everyone knows" Silicon Valley started as a dot-mil fab but California invented the personal computer and sold it. Hey wait, just California?! yes, mostly.. See the West Coast Computer Fair .. shout out to Byte Magazine from New England too. "avoid politics" was true for some stripes of participants and completely not true for others.. It is true IMHO that consumer gear generated a lot of success and was largely apolitical.