If you want to admit it or not CA is sort of the trend setter for everyone else.
I grew up in CA and really had no idea about other states until I decided to move a dozen or so times out of the state.
What I realized that if it happened in CA then eventually they will try it elsewhere.
I mean if you live in WA you gotta notice the heavy CA influence up there with housing costs and totaly liberalizm.
The deal that really hits home is this. SO many people leave CA and basically take those morals with them to other states. Sort of like a slow moving Virus.