For those moving inside the US, how important is access to ports?

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Giving up territory is usually a losing proposition, but that's particularly true when the territory in question is where your countries culture originates. I don't know if California culture would still spread across the US if controlled by conservatives again, but it certainly does now.

This is what I wonder about. What makes California such a center of American culture?

Is it just that it's such a population center? I think that's a big contributing factor, but the explanation may be more mundane: leftists are just better-organized and happen to have their largest institutions located in California.

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What makes California such a center of American culture?

People have probably answered this far better than I can. I suspect it has something to do with so many having to intentionally move to California, as opposed to staying in the BFE where one was born. That "Are you coming... To San Francisco..." song attracted a massive leftist/hippy response too.

The gold rush. The amazing productivity of the land. Nearby county grows $5 billion in strawberries. Marijuana was a $14 billion crop prior to legalization. Silicon Valley. The geography and weather. "The West" is where all the free thinkers came, for good and for bad. It's a remarkable place, and so unfortunate to currently be in the hands of the scoundrels and scumbags.

That question is a great search term, btw.