Nicely stated. I lived there for awhile quite some time ago. I met a few a-holes, but the vast majority of Californians I met - from the cities to the countryside - were wonderful people. The politicians and creepy H-wood types are another story. Get rid of the DS scourge and you've got it made - like the rest of us, in varying degrees, from sea-to-shining-sea... and across the world, for that matter. Good people across this land love our patriotic Californians. Keep up the good fight.