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lol, only someone from around the Bay Area would grow up here thinking Cali is a socially liberal state.
Where did you get that idea from? I grew up in San Diego and it irritates me when outsiders think the state is collectively liberal and chastise us for it. I don't care because of liberalism, I wish it was true, I care because it's incorrect and also means that people who buy into it within the state don't really understand how difficult it will be to fix fuckups like 3 strikes laws, this victim rights law, prop 8.
people talk about things like medical marijuana as examples of raging liberalism, but what they don't realize is that while some communities like Humbolt are pretty happy and high right now, the rest of the state only supports it in so far as they realize that we simply don't have the agencies to prosecute and the room to incarcerate potheads. the rest are opposed to it.
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