As most know by now, Scalia's dissent in the Marriage case (Obergefell v. Hodges) was off the wall. Pat Morrison of the LA Times who also has a daily show on the KPCC (public radio) has a great take down of Scalia's argument, especially his argument dismissing California as a significant factor. Morrison's Article in LA Times
In a display of judicial temperament right out of People vs. You Kids Git Off My Lawn, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dissented spectacularly and cholerically from Friday's same-sex marriage ruling with the declaration that the court — his own court — doesn’t represent the grand geographic sweep of America, that it has “not a single South-westerner or even, to tell the truth, a genuine Westerner.” Then, parenthetically, he delivered this:. "California does not count."
California, which was briefly its own country, is not only the most populous state in the nation, it’s also the seventh- or eighth-largest economy in the world all on its own, and an idea engine for the whole planet.
California not the “genuine” West? Does Scalia mean the West he sees in cowboy movies, populated by matinee-idol gunslingers and plucky, poke-bonneted ranch wives?
I urge you to go read the whole article. I enjoyed it.