I am saying that all this stuff should have never left the bay area, and the bay area should have millions more people than it does today.

Arizona is also a mistake --- a far worse place for high tech than Oregon!. It is a desert real estate ponzi scheme with no top-tier schools, no history of top-tier high-skill intellectual job markets. In general the sun belt (including LA) is the land of stupid.

The electoral college is always winning out over the best economic geography, and it sucks.