I don’t know about Colorado, but California has a great many different communities. Orange County is very conservative, Reagan/Nixon country. Silicon Valley (San Jose, Cupertino---where I grew up) is very high-tech, of course. Southern California is full of aggressively ambitious people (who move there to "become" someone). Los Angeles has a huge Jewish population, many I knew having moved there from NYC. The center of the State is completely agricultural. Santa Cruz is full of surfers. Some of the best colleges in the country are in California (Stanford, for one), as are many excellent music schools. Palm Desert and Palm Springs are full of gated communities containing second homes of people from all over the U.S. and Canada. ARC’s Bill Johnson’s Winter home was in Desert Wells, which borders on Palm Desert. Painting with a broad brush is silly.