The people going to these other states and ruining them cannot be considered Californian any more than they can be considered American. They have no allegiances and they have no connections to place or people. They’re rootless and they hate the qualities - family, community, tradition - that make a place beautiful, so they destroy them. 

It’s not that California is like this, it’s that they did this to California and they’re bringing the same hate to their new, temporary homes elsewhere.