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I like the Texan philosophy that Texas is awesome/amazing, it gets annoying for me how it seems very few other states have actual pride for their state government, and proceed to not a give a crap about anything except the presidential election. Maybe if Californians had more respect for their state we would not have 'd on our state elections and let the state get into billions of dollars of debt.
Point of Order: it's more complicated than just the Cal citizenry didn't care. It's that + badly-crafted Initiatives (with great intentions, but no funding sources), a hopelessly partisan (and therefore useless) Assembly who, failing in their own jobs, pass the decisions onto the voters via those badly-written Initiatives, that get passed by a simple majority of voters who managed to show up at the polls that day.

We (California) are in dire need of a Constitutional Convention, to re-craft how Cali Law is made.

As a footnote, I point out that California was also an Independent Republic for awhile; for a total of about 21 days. Somebody thought it'd be a good idea to get a US sailor-boy to hoist the Stars and Stripes near Sacramento - bam! we became a colony of the US, and later, a State. One can only wonder what life might be like in the Republic of Califia.