Is there a hatred of California in the USA?

[Illesdan]

I'm going to comment on this simply as a native-born Oregonian: Yes, we don't like Californians. The reason we don't like Californians is because they move up here for whatever reason, and then proceed to ***** about...

1) The weather. 'It's soooo cold!' It snows here, duh.

2) How little variety there is to do or buy of anything. I find this comical myself, because I've traveled all over the U.S. and we actually have more going on for us here than 80% of the Midwest, South and Eastern Seaboard.

3) The people are hicks. This is another funny comment since most 'Oregonians' are actually California transplants. So, whenever you insult an Oregonian, you might want to make sure they didn't come from, say, YOUR STATE.

We are in a few ways like the Japanese. If you are an outsider, no matter how long you've lived here, you will likely always be considered an outsider. My spouse is still a Californian as far as I'm concerned, even though he's been here for twenty years now. It's not prejudice, per se, it's just many of us can count how many generations we've been here, where towns started, shifted and died, what building used to be what back in the day, and so on. We just happen to have a little more in common with each other than somebody who newly comes in and promptly starts complaining about how un-Californian we are.

 

[Nieroshai]

All states have opinions about each other, both positive and negative, in the same way the EU nations all have likes and dislikes about each other. What a lot of people, even over here, don't seem to get about America is that it ultimately is a cluster of fifty nations governed by a federal over-nation, if not in name then in practice. America is the empire, California is the duchy where the movies are made.

 

[Gauntlets28]

I'm pretty sure that it's similar to the Canadian "hatred" of Quebec.

ie. A few people do genuinely hate them, but most people like Quebec well enough, but EVERYONE goes on about how terrible they are. Same with the common "perception" that Alberta is locked in a hate-ridden blood feud with Ontario. National jokes are a bit weird.

Yeah, I get that. It's like Wales being 'the place with the sheep shaggers and the rain'. They know we love them really. Mostly...

 

[Pickled]

I like California, in fact I lived there at one time. Much better state than some others I've been in.

 

[JaceArveduin]

What a lot of people, even over here, don't seem to get about America is that it ultimately is a cluster of fifty nations governed by a federal over-nation, if not in name then in practice. America is the empire, California is the duchy where the movies are made.

Ya know, I never thought of it like that, but it does make a decent amount of sense...

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I live in Ohio and we do hate California. But North California is cool. All the Texans, New Yorkers, Michiganites, Indianaolites, Pennsylvanians, Kentuckymen, Tennesseans, Floridians, and Wisconsinites I know hate California. It's mainly the people, because let's face it, they are awful.

 

[LG Jargon]

Hatred? No. Do we deride California to hell? Of course. We do it for all the states (except Delaware because who gives a shit about Delaware). Florida is full of crazies, Texas is thinks it is a separate nation, Oregon is hipster central, and California is... well:

Californian here. People hate us because we are all hippies and/or movie stars. All of us.

Yeah, pretty much this.

*snf snf* I care about Delaware. T.T *goes to a corner and cries, drawing circles in the floor with his finger* W-We matter...W-We're better than fuckin' New Jersey...And we're n-not even in the South, technically...

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OT: No idea. I like California, to an extent. All my fellow dirty hippie socialist liberals live there or on the East Coast here. Still, they did pass Prop 8 for a time, so they aren't that great. Plus, there does seem to be a slight culture of vapidity, so...yeah...

 

[InsanityRequiem]

oh no I was referring more to Lee(or is it Yee) who got charged with gunrunning and Peloski who is just an amoral idiot.

The thing is you're blaming all of California for what is legitimately a very, very tiny population. Both in Northern California, around the San Francisco/Sacramento areas. Possibly San Jose. Literally, maybe 100,000 people at most. So I'm just pointing that out. California has around 55 House congress members and 80 state assembly members, we don't vote for all of them. Yee was, and still is, an idiot. Pelosi's a life-time politician. Both should be out of politics, but those of us in Los Angeles, San Diego, Barstow, and the other NoCal districts do not has an ounce of control over what the other remaining voting citizens in this state do. And seriously... I think maybe less than 20% of Californians vote anymore?

And in regards to politics, nationwide California is regarded as a Democratic blue state, but if people have an actual look at the political make up of this state, they'll realize it's locally Republican red for the most part. Heck, the big cities are more purple than blue anymore.

 

[ecoho]

oh no I was referring more to Lee(or is it Yee) who got charged with gunrunning and Peloski who is just an amoral idiot.

The thing is you're blaming all of California for what is legitimately a very, very tiny population. Both in Northern California, around the San Francisco/Sacramento areas. Possibly San Jose. Literally, maybe 100,000 people at most. So I'm just pointing that out. California has around 55 House congress members and 80 state assembly members, we don't vote for all of them. Yee was, and still is, an idiot. Pelosi's a life-time politician. Both should be out of politics, but those of us in Los Angeles, San Diego, Barstow, and the other NoCal districts do not has an ounce of control over what the other remaining voting citizens in this state do. And seriously... I think maybe less than 20% of Californians vote anymore?

And in regards to politics, nationwide California is regarded as a Democratic blue state, but if people have an actual look at the political make up of this state, they'll realize it's locally Republican red for the most part. Heck, the big cities are more purple than blue anymore.

Oh I know that some of you are ok people but dear lord it seems like the majority of you guys who leave are the ones with the fewest brain cells. I shit you not theres at least one idiot every year from there who says this near me or to me, "howdy partner how are things in the west?" in a horrible wanna be cowboy accent that makes me just want to shoot them, hence why I dislike people from California.

 

[kortin]

I hate the southern US. I hate Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina. California, though? Nah, I don't have any problems with California. I mean, I hate hippies and stoners, but they congregate more in Oregon and are still pretty spread out through the US anyways.