Have you ever noticed how the peoples republic of California has different rules than the rest of the states?

Question

Have you ever noticed how the peoples republic of California has different rules than the rest of the states?

Answer 1

Having lived in New York and Illinois, I moved to California in 1962 and wouldn't consider living anywhere else.

It's true that we tend to be ahead of the rest of the country. New ideas adopted in California often take several years to be adopted in the rest of the country, especially the more backward areas of the South.

Answer 2

I've been there a few times,and it's awesome,now thanks to your question I know much more of why it's so different,much like up here in B.C.We can't make all our own rules,the Feds run some just by jurisdiction,but we have what's known as Western Alienation for our independent ways,lol on Ottawa.

I'm really glad if you guys didn't go with the slavery route,it took much that was good ,away from the Southern culture.

My bf is from Sacramento,and he is so cool : ),I love his Southern manners.Medical mari-u betcha,we grow enough of it,omg : )

Answer 3

I sure hope so.  If only the would let us close the border at Arizona to keep out all the red staters.

FYI  The Bear Flag party was a group that advocated California joining the union as a slave state.  Thank god we took the cool flag, but dropped the rest of their agenda.

Answer 4

Yes, I've never had my car searched going into any other state.  Like a dang communist country.  The 'border' crossing into California was as bad as going into Mexico and worse than Canada!

Answer 5

Yes.  Everything I purchase says I can't use it in California.  I love to visit Los Angeles but I wouldn't want to live there.  The land of some very good fruits and nuts.

Answer 6

Yes,California is a pioneering state like Arizona,Oregon and Alaska.While other states representatives are happy living under federal guidelines,the citizens of California are not so ignorant.The ballot box is used by the residents to gain individual freedoms.I think most Californians know what is good for them.That is why medicinal marijuana use is legal at the state level.That is also why same-s*x marriage is o.k now.

  Other states will kill these measures using judges appointed to the state courts by the leaders of those states not the citizens.Those states are probably full of citizens who feel the federal government knows what is best for them.These are also the same states that are having jail overcrowding problems....too many pot smokers and sodomists i guess.

F.Y.I.

The state flag "California Republic"was raised in 1846 by American settlers during an uprising against rule from Mexico.Although their "California Republic"was shortlived,its flag remains in use today as a symbol for our love for freedom in this state.

Answer 7

Yes, because we're the bomb

we're not hillbillies (the United States of Appalachia, aka, Kentucky, Tennessee, N and S Carolina)

we're not bible beaters (the south)

we're not morons (Texans, cough cough, George W)

we're not polygamists (Texans again)

we're not living in the Ice Age for 6 months out of the year (northeast)

we're not living in the center of the earth for 13 months out of the year (the southwest)

we're capable of voting (thank you Florida)

we're not part of the Confederate States of the Ku Klux Klan (both Virginias and Carolinas, and yes even Montana, you're in that group too)

we're not living under constant rain (Northwest)

again, we're the bomb!