The legendary Chicago newspaper columnist, Mike Royko, once observed that at a certain point in American history, the map of the continental United States had been tilted towards the west. Everything which was loose rolled all the way out to California and settled there. While Royko was obviously joking, there is usually a suggestion of the transient or impermanent in much of Californian life.
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