This should link to the (better) original article, not the WaPo rehash:<p><a href="http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in-arms.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/fall2013/features/up-in...</a>
The the article talks about the Left Coast - I call it the Best coast. It's where Intel, Boeing, HP, Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon, Starbucks and the Grateful Dead come from. Let any other part of the country match that. :)