That division would leave many millions of good people still in the mess. Still victims of the oppressive regime A large part of southern, central and eastern California does not support the dominating party. There is no clear geographic split. Even in the south half of the state, the Hollywood and LA politics is not representative of the rest.

But it is quite telling that here in the middle of the state, the central coastal area near San Francisco east to Sacramento, people refer to this area as "Northern California". As if to emphasize that nothing north of Sonoma really matters.