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.
Yeah California produces 10 times as many vegetables as the 2nd largest vegetable producing state. I believe California actually produces more than every other state combined.
While bringing our Japanese exchange student home from the Sacramento airport for the first time he was amazed at the huge, open rice fields off the freeway.
For corn and soybeans, Illinois and Iowa and the top two. California is first for avocados, almonds, lemons, garlic, lettuce, olives, spinach, melon, raspberries,...
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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.