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Born and raised there.  Finally people will stop thinking I'm exaggerating.
The Bakersfield shithole, the one whose main highways in and out are littered with signs cursing Gavin Newsom for personally dumping 95% of the state's agricultural water into the ocean?
Is it like a reverse Borat or something? >

And yet if you live in California you probably benefit from the area's agriculture or the vast oil deposits there. >

I do! The best part of Bakersfield and the Central Valley, is the part in the rear-view mirror on the way to Vegas. 
Could probably do without about 3/4 of the almond production in the area as well, and put the water to better use. But wah wah wah Gavin Newsome [sic] is personally dumping all of the good, useful, precious water into the ocean, or something.