[King Glorious]

There always has been and always will be a bias towards the East when it comes to matters of national votes because there are more major population centers back east. There's basically no people in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, The Dakotas, and Nevada. Almost all of the people in what would be considered the West are in California, the Seattle/Portland corridor, and Phoenix. Some might consider the major Texas cities of Dallas and Houston to be in the West but still, it's nothing compared to the East. The I-95 corridor between Boston and Washington dominates the rest of the country as far as population and media. Right or wrong (and I think it's mostly right), people from back East have always looked at the West, and particularly California, as soft. Be a street hustler in California and if you aren't good at it and are left homeless, you won't freeze to death. You will in NY or Chicago or Detroit or Boston. The weather has a lot to do with this mentality. I don't understand how anyone can deny it exists. Like the song says, if you can make it in NY, you can make it anywhere. Easterners, especially NY'ers, have always had that mentality. Sports fans out here are very fair weather. Fans don't live and die with their teams like they do back there. They booed Santa in Philly. They came on the court to fight Ron Artest in Detroit. Having lived on both coasts, there is nothing like the East Coast.