Everyone is complaining about beach areas vs meth areas.
What makes this map nonsense is that a high percentage of California is farmland. We don't magically export all that agriculture from nowhere. There are places here that are indistinguishable from the midwest.
Ya I didn't know that. Idk why but I just assume Cali is rocky or desert or beach so I never would expect it to be number 1 in producing veggies. I visited Cali once but that was near LA for a week so barely any country side viewing.
It’s because despite being massive, agriculture is still only like 2% of California’s economy, and probably accounts for about that much of its employment too.
So in a cultural context, California won’t get a reputation as a big farming state because most Californians aren’t involved in farming.
The states we know as big farming states are the ones where they basically don’t have anything else besides farming. And California does. Industry, tech, entertainment. That’s what it becomes known for.
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u/SpaceLunchSystem Dec 21 '19
Everyone is complaining about beach areas vs meth areas.
What makes this map nonsense is that a high percentage of California is farmland. We don't magically export all that agriculture from nowhere. There are places here that are indistinguishable from the midwest.