I think if you are Fresno or North you are in NorCal, SoCal is Bakersfield and South. I'm not saying it's right, seems like Central California would be a better place to keep the Capitol, but this is just the way things seem to be. I think it's cause there really isn't anything IN actual Northern part of CA. There's a big lake, some hills including some downright unstable hills, some lovely seaside communities, probably a nice river somewhere in there. So they probably figured it wasn't worth wasting 'NorCal' on that, so they kept going down and down until they were south of SF.
As we cover all of our favorite activities and destinations in Northern California, we hear this all the time from our readers - "that's not in NorCal." California is a big state with many different regions and it's become a lively debate to determine exactly what is North, South and Central...
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