it's easy for ignorant people who've never lived someplace to call it a "shithole".
It's not surprising that uneducated, uninformed simpletons such as yourself would have such a third-grade view of the situation. However, for educated, informed people such as myself, it's not that difficult to understand.
One does not need to live in a state to know what is going on in it. We have this thing now called "technology". It includes - but is
not limited to - things such as television, radio, and the internet. In addition, I've had both friends and family live there.
I've watched both news reports and documentaries on the gangs in California. Le eMe (aka the "Mexican Mafia"), MS-13, Crips, Bloods, Mongols, etc. Their prisons far exceed all 49 other states for housing the worst of the worst because that's what that shit-hole state produces with their idiotic left-wing polices.
It has produced more serial killers than
any other state (the Night Stalker, the Golden State killer, the Hillside Stranglers, the Zodiac, the Freeway killer, Charles Manson, etc.).
They are up to a mind-boggling
$1.3 trillion in debt (which is illegal incidentally as states are required to have a balanced budget each and every year). That is a clear tribute to their failed leadership and their failed ideology.
And most laughable of all - the state can't even figure out how to keep the electricity turned on.