Here's the difference between where you live, and where people like Eric Schmidt, Guy Kawasaki, and Tim Draper live: when their houses get tagged by vandals, it becomes a federal problem.
The tech industry is very white. The rest of California isn't always so white. The gap between the startup crowd's success and a flagging national economy can be tense enough—but according to this report, local police are targeting hispanic drivers in Facebook's backyard. That won't help.