re: Anybody live in California?

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This ^^... I live there and like it. I go camping, hiking and skiing. It is a fun place that can wear on you a bit. I keep a close circle of friends with similar outlooks on life and have a larger group of eclectic friends that are great people. You will encounter the hippie, the commie, the hipster liberal, and the protester, so never discuss religion or politics in large groups and just stomach the absolute liberal commie shite that will spew forth when you get around some of them. As a Southerner you should be able to drink their asses under the table, so use that as a weapon to assert Southern Alpha (just kidding! sort of... maybe)

However, outside of the major cities, it is a different story. The native Californians are a lot like Southerners and are fantastic people. There are so few of them really. Tons of foreigners! You will like if you are single and young - go for it!

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That's because a significant chunk of them are descendant from Southerners...or Okies. Steinbeck drew on very real history in his descriptions of California in the 1930's. There were two major migrations from the southeast to California (post-Civil War and Depression). There's an academic argument that much of the so-called laid-back California culture is a relic of some of the southern Anglos who came to the place (though stripped of many of the cultural trappings of the South).