So what state is better ? Name two .
California has the best climate in the USA.
It also has two deep water ports. On top of these is Los Angeles which has a massive commercial harbor. San Diego may be the greatest natural harbor in the world.
These gifts give California a massive advantage. None of them are due to Marxist policies.
But California has squandered these gifts. The Bolshevik rulers have waged war on manufacturing and driven nearly all industry from the state. To maintain their iron grip on power, the Bolsheviks have imported 10's of millions of third world peasants and bribe them with welfare to vote democrat - and illegals do vote.
All of this would have caused the state to collapse, even with San Francisco and San Diego, except that the largest enclave of Corporate monopoly power which is Silicone Valley is present. These massive monopolies dwarf Standard Oil or US Steel, with the robber barons of Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, and Sergie Brin beloved of the Stalinist rules, who run the state specifically for these oligarchs.
We have a state where 70% of the population is in dire poverty, a middle class of no more than 5%, a massive government caste of 25%, with 99% of the wealth concentrated in the hands of the Oligarchs.
A better state than California? Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota, Main, Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, Alaska, et al.