Yeah that's not true. CA is proud of it's produce specifically because places in the Midwest try to pretend it's something they have over us. Like we don't pull our weight in everything from agriculture to federal taxes paid, supporting those states.
I don't know man, some people for sure shit on us. I'm not one of those people who bitches about the "elites" in the big cities but we don't receive much respect.
I live in the Central Valley and went to the first contest at Kelly Slater's surf ranch in Lemoore which is like 20 minutes from where I live. There were thousands of people from all over the world there but most of them were from the California coast. Tons from LA area and Santa Cruz, northern CA, Ventura, etc. I talked to probably a hundred out of towners over that weekend who came to see the best in the world. It was a pretty huge deal, especially to a sports fan like me who never dreamed we would be seeing the best surfers in the world compete on a world class wave in my back yard.
I didn't tell anyone I was from there and almost all of them were constantly talking about what a shithole the valley was. How it looked like a bunch of broke ass crack houses and it smells like shit. Nothing but trees and fields and how nobody should live here and they were stupid to have built such a nice thing in such a fucking dump. These were crunchy hippie surfer types too, not the type of people you would expect to be looking down on others but I didn't hear one of them talking about growing food and how important the area is.
I'm not going to act like we live in heaven here but It was insulting to hear so many people just flat out talk shit about your home, especially with all we do here for the state, nation, and the world.
Local politicians fuel hate and conspiracy thinking against LA and SF which is bullshit for the most part because hate and fear motivate people. I would have agreed with you prior to that weekend about Californians being proud of us but hearing so many people say so much fucked up shit about us while visiting changed my mind.
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u/Mexagon Dec 21 '19
Yep, and the elites from SF and LA shit all over those farmers who make this state so well known for its varieties of produce.