User:Knoodelhed/Californian

In some usages of Lovian English, the noun Californian is applied on a mostly linguistic basis to persons from the western United States: not only to people who have resided or did reside within the U.S. state of California but also persons from nearby regions, such as southern Nevada or even the Columbia River country in Oregon.

To be fair, most of the regular air travel between the United States and Lovia connects in California by way of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Ana. It is also worth noting that under the old Spanish empire and later early Mexican republic, "Alta California" referred to a large chunk of western North America that included the land area of not only the modern state of California, but also Nevada, Arizona, Utah, northern New Mexico, western Colorado, and southwestern Wyoming!