California gets an inordinate amount of attention because despite all of the wealth and the size of the economy, they're the worst in Opportunity and among the worst in Fiscal Policy, Crime, and Cost of Living.....most of which is directly driven by stupid policy enforced by a combination of elitist politicians and stupid grifters. They have willfully created most of their own problems by enacting policy that anyone with common sense could have told you would drive such a result, or refusing to enact policy that would begin to solve them.