Northern California isn’t yet a separate nation-state, or economic superpower… although California as a whole is. But with all the different versions of a imagined geographies appearing around the web, you have to wonder if NoCal, as envisioned by William Gibson in Neuromancer (among other novels), will ever find a new place in the country or the world. Here’s the real breakdown of the way it is, courtesy Scripting News. Or, the national 404 (read closely).
Living in San Francisco, where a Democratic mayor was the conservative candidate in the last election, really doesn’t prepare you for the real world of national politics. It’s obvious, intellectually, but that dichotomy of colors… wow.