Maybe if we can get more states to become "anti-LGBT" (whatever that is), all the Californians will stay in California.
There's a sort of precedent. Back in the 1980s, California got in a snit about the national test for accrediting architects for licensure. California decided they were more special than the other 49 states, so they demanded that the national accrediting board recognize California's test as equivalent to the national test, or else California would thereafter refuse to register anyone who had taken the national test instead of the California test.
To its credit, the national board stood firm and said, "Fine. Just remember that people who took the California test won't be able to be registered anywhere else." And there things stood for a period a several years.
Architects' licenses are like doctors' licenses -- they aren't reciprocal, you have to get a license for each state you want to design a building in, regardless of where your office is located. And pretty soon a bunch of famous California architects started feeling the pinch, because they couldn't accept commissions for major projects because they couldn't get licensed in the other states. And, finally, California crawled back to the national board and basically said, "Okay, we were only kidding."
More institutions and organizations need to play hardball with California and their delusions of superiority. The architect thing was based on California's belief that their conditions are "unique" -- like nowhere else in the U.S. are there rain storms, wind, snow, or earthquakes. And yet any time I see a news article about a condominium complex tumbling down a hill in a mudslide, I don't even need to read the article to know that it happened in California. So much for the superiority of their design professionals.
