Tax Guru – Ker$tetter Letter

Two Californias

During the entire 38 years I lived in the PRC, I was among those who thought we should have divided the state into two separate ones. We Northern Californians had nothing in common with those who lived down South in LA-LA land. Whenever we had droughts up North and were not allowed to wash our cars or water our lawns, we were treated to photos of the Southern Californians doing just those things with the water that they stole from our Delta area and diverted down to themselves.

While the natural division of the two Californias always seemed to be by bisecting it cross-wise in the middle, this map and analysis of the voting last week for governor shows that a more politically feasible division would be to section off the liberal coastal counties from the more conservative inland ones. It’s very similar to the blue and red state map of the USA after the 2000 Bush vs Gore election. For some reason, liberals have a tendency to congregate more on the coasts, while the more conservative members of our society seem to be satisfied living in fly-over country.

KMK