furthest away from the white house
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ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why is it the westernmost states that are the most progressive?
“Progressive” being relative
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But Washington is right there
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
wrong washington
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Common misconception for people outside of the US, Washington State =/= Washington, D.C. They’re on opposite ends of the country, and don’t have much in common in terms of how they are ran.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Needs to get Hawaii on board
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I think Hawaii is pretty much sorted when it comes boards… you probably want to get on their board.
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
They were founded as “utopian” states. Oregon as the white only utopia, California as the utopia of gold and glamour and Washington as the utopia of…lumber or something.
Historically the rockies and great plains states were the most left-leaning parts of the country. Wyoming was the first to allow women to vote.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because they aren’t
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Very high concentrations of educated citizens among the populace, a functional tax system that actually reinvests into its people compared to many other states in the union (especially below the Mason-Dixon line), and key cities center to high-tech development and critical US industries, military or otherwise.
Additionally, because these states were some of the last to be incorporated into the United States, they largely were able to develop in less rigid ways in the 20th and 21st centuries compared to other states in the union (Cheaper land also allowed developing industries like computing to invest heavily in the region).
Though not a perfect summation, here’s a video from Vox about why Silicon Valley is located in California: youtu.be/6xvrKW2H_hA
I can try to explain any other questions about our politics and social norms as a Californian (though I’m less familiar with Oregon and Washington State, sadly).
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You hit on the core reason. Less rigidity. The east and south are much more traditional. They are slow to change tradition. That also makes them slow to adapt. It’s a mindset. And the people who left those areas to go west did so with a more open mindset. And once it started that way, it was more or less established. If you like peer pressure from dead people, go east and south. If not, go west.
brognak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
…the fuck are you on about? Don’t lump the Northeast in with the South. Massachusetts is easily the most liberal state in the country, and it’s not even really close and second place is Hawaii so still not West Coast.
If you want peer pressure from GOP funding Silicon Valley NIMBYs and weirdly conservative cannabis farmers go West. If you want a culture that prides itself on cutting you off in traffic while sipping a large extra extra around the Newport eternally stuck to your lower lip but at the same militantly defending your civil rights and social systems, come to New England. Or don’t, we barely have snow anymore. I’ll give that to the American West, better ski mountains.
(this is mostly a joke, everyone’s fucked anyway)
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ya’know, it is odd now that you mention it. Out here in oregon we have a lot more “gray” days then out east. Yet I don’t see as many people drinking coffee in the care compared to out east. You would think we would need it more.
Also odd, there is a clear difference in how traditional east coast companies are (and are allowed to be). Tech is my area, and it is very noticeable. Management hierarchies are much more rigid. Clothing/appearance expectations. Still a lot of golf played on company time. Diversity… I think the people are often liberal, but they don’t seem to take much of that to the office. Oh, and more religion in the east than the west. Y’all still have blue laws in many states.