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Well, it's geographically the most southwestern state in the continental United States. However, California also takes up 840/1293 miles of the Pacific Coastline (from Coastline of the United States — Infoplease.com CA, OR, WA are added together to get 1293), or around 65% of the continental US West Coast.
All of it can't be considered the southwest. It wouldn't make much sense, especially for those who live in the Bay Area (nearly halfway up the Pacific Coast from San Diego).
If you define the Southwest as the former Mexican lands, it makes perfect sense. Even for those of us living in the now well subdivided Ranchos of the Bay Area. Funny how so many of my fellow Nor Cals envision some sort of Alternate History that had us as part of the UK or something like that ...
Gotta pass 42 N to get into non former Mexican territory / former UK territory.
If you define the Southwest as the former Mexican lands, it makes perfect sense. Even for those of us living in the now well subdivided Ranchos of the Bay Area. Funny how so many of my fellow Nor Cals envision some sort of Alternate History that had us as part of the UK or something like that ...
Gotta pass 42 N to get into non former Mexican territory / former UK territory.
Well, culture is different than geography. I try to shy away from that because culture is an extremely fluid concept. If we use a cultural metric, we'd be a part of the East Coast instead of the Wild, Wild, West.
Anyways, Mexico had an extremely weak hold onto California, never mind the Spanish. Much of Northern California north of the Bay Area didn't have much of a Spanish or Mexican influence to begin with. Look how many Spanish named areas are north of the Bay. San Francisco's Presidio was built in part to oppose Russian influence north of the Bay Area (where Fort Ross is)
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