Al... I don't think the locals were anti-CA. They were anti-CA politics. And they were absolutely correct then.
Look at WA and OR now? It's CA North... liberal run and circling the drain.
A lot of the folks I am meeting here are welcoming. Many are also not from here and moved here for the same reasons I did. I think, at least in the area I am currently in (old Springfield, downtown), they are a bit liberal. And there is currently a project going on to "revitalize" the area called SPAR (Springfield Preservation and Revitalization).
They are renovating older houses, apartments and such and trying to spruce things up. Lots of homeless in the area. Food Pantry line on Tuesday at 3pm and Thursday at 9am has plenty in line to get free food... oh, and bring photo ID. It's there on the sign.
But you've got run-down, dilapidated, craptastic "houses" next to beautifully renovated old houses. You've got houses flying American flags and US military flags (I've seen Navy and Marine... or a southern college like FSU or Auburn) and then the next house has a sign saying "We believe black lives matter, no human is illegal, love is love, blabbity blah, blah, BS...".
Liberal policies make rich people feel good and do absolutely nothing to help the people they claim to want to help. Just the facts...
Oh, and the Food Pantry sign? I'll text it to you if you want me to. Some here have already received that text with an LOL! Racist to require an ID to vote, but you poor folk that need food damn sure better have one or you gon' starve!
Can't make this crap up, man... need one to bank, to get public assistance, to buy booze or cigarettes... but to exercise an extremely important right, it should not be required? Pretty sure protecting the integrity of our voting system is more important than making sure a poor person doesn't get in line at the food pantry twice. Just saying.