Ron:
You are right on. Funny, Like many, I am old enough to remember when Reagan was governor and the state was actually conservative. Those days are long gone. I also sympathize with you folks in the true "Northern California". Between the Bay Area and LA, its just hard to find enough level headed people with common sense to balance out the "fringe element". The whole U.S. is the same....a whole lot of good people had to mobilize every single vote to keep out that element......witness what happened in the 2000 presidential contest.
And you are also right about it spreading. When we first moved out here in 1996, a neighbor (and native Texican) asked me how I liked the state so far. I replied very much...but that I was already sensing a very California-like "elitist" attitude in some of the local government...especially the larger cities. Some real strange looks. Well, two days ago, a smoking ban went into effect in Dallas, and it will undoubtedly proliferate from there.
Time will tell. As a good friend of mind sez..."Sometimes it's just time to push the reset button" Maybe like they did in '76?.....that's 1776....
Bud
