Pulaski

Which is presumably why the blue states think they can boss them around.

SultanOfSwing

kimilseung

I know my state had some restrictions. I assumed others did too. Successful as well, in the context of other bodies withdrawing business. As NC stepped back.

Inslee prohibits non-essential state-funded travel to North Carolina | Governor Jay Inslee

SultanOfSwing

Yeah, apparently I didn't research that point before I tried to be flippant, as I am now discovering.

Oh well.

dc koop

California is a true democracy in every sense. We will have something of a battle on our hands in the next four years, exercising to the fullest State's rights and fighting off the worst of the toxic shite that will no doubt be heading this way from DC

Pulaski

Well at least it is if you're in the 60% that vote for the status quo. I guess you'll be finding out what it has been like living in a "red state" for the past eight years.

dc koop

The only thing red about California are the Redwoods.

In four years from now the country will be looking back and wondering what the hell happened to it

scrubbedexpat091

Except for all the small counties up north and the middle section, still pretty conservative. Of course the big populated counties tend to swing blue.

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/res...-clinton-trump

robin1234

Exactly. Just one example, Nashville Tennessee. It's a traditional venue for national conferences. If folks who work in public service in CA can't attend, the conference won't be booked in Nashville.

Pulaski

You missed my point entirely - even solid blue states like CA and MA have around 30%-40% Republican voters, and conversely solid red states have around 30%-40% Democrat voters. In other words America is much more homogenous than many people realize, mostly because the media seem to like to present America as being devided in a digital red-state-blue-state way.

Pulaski

If you'd read your own link, exceptions 5 and 6 will allow most if not all people to attend. Whether conference organizers will choose to organize conferences in TN or NC is a different question though.

BTW I saw an article yesterday that reported numerous other states with "bathroom bills in the works, all the way from Texas to Virginia and Minnesota.

morpeth

I lived in SF Bay Area for while. There were evangelical Christians living there for work, who decided best way to counter the intolerance against them was just to be quiet, and construct their own social relations- their own radio and music, schools etc. I remember one Baptist school there every morning there was a pledge of allegiance twice, one to the American flag and one to the Christian flag. Students quite often at universities would learn very quickly what views could be discussed in class to be able to get a passing grade. We used to attend a dinner of some Stanford professors, they were quite open in private that they wished to limit in class open expression of views that didn't agree with their ideology.

So no surprise 30% of Californians voted for Trump.

Pulaski

Thank you. I knew already, but apparently Da Koop didn't.

petitefrancaise

Can't quite believe Texas isn't on the CA banned list. Thank god I don't live in any of those states that are.

dc koop

The main thing to remember though is that the GOP will never gain control of the Legislature and that's what matters in the end. Sometimes Californians in moments of insanity have elected a Republican Governor but I predict the likelihood of that happening very often in the future as a zero.

We have a live and let live philosophy in this State. There's not much in common with what the mentality in DC is about to be for the next four years.