It also suggests that most people who live in the West Coast region have a generally more liberal or progressive attitude than the rest of the country.
The phrase plays on the fact that the West Coast is on the left of the United States when viewing a map with north oriented at the top.
[4] Writer, voiceover actor, and gay rights activist Ben Patrick Johnson calls his video blog Life on the Left Coast.
The left coast has by far the most workers in STEM professions and will continue to be a leading tech hub for the United States.
Additionally, in the 2022 House of Representatives elections, all congressional districts directly bordering the Pacific Ocean (including Alaska and Hawaii) were won by Democrats.