Talk:Northern California

message: No. CA  starts at  Carmel city, 36 degrees 30 minutes  N.   Not at 35 degrees. Where is the reference for that? This is arbitrary, all the years I lived in CA I never heard of it.
Politically sure you would have to include all of Monterey County and west. A straight line. 
Not physically, try it.
I'm sure So Californians would not like this distinction blurred, either. At least  Wiki does not loop  No. CA around  the Central Valley or try to include Santa Barbara as the  central coast.
Who deleted my post?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.129.164.98 (talk) 22:21, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Cal at 36 degrees 30 min 

message: I was essentially reverting the previous edit, in which “The Northstate” was completely removed. Since there is a long-standing redirect (Northstate), and since that is what I’ve heard myself (I know, that doesn’t really count), I reinstated it without the definite article. I’m not sure where I would look for a source — my access is limited. — Gorthian (talk) 21:34, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: All good, thanks for the ping. Let's take my edit as a bold remove as opposed to a revert. I did a quick, non-thorough google earlier and all I came up with was urban dictionary. Happy to have it in there if it's applicable, but there is the issue that it doesn't seem to apply to Northern California as a whole, rather just it's northern counties. Perhaps it could go in a subsection. Brycehughes (talk) 05:44, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  I surprised myself and actually found something to use as a reference. I added it into the Description section. I didn’t add it to the lead, though, because “Northstate” encompasses a smaller area than this article’s definition of Northern California. — Gorthian (talk) 22:20, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool, thanks for that. Brycehughes (talk) 01:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northstate 

message: California extends 10 degrees in latitude, from San Ysidro in the south at 32 degrees north latitude to the Oregon border, which is at 42 degrees north latitude. The midpoint should be 37 degrees, not 39 degrees because the average of 32 and 42 is 37. Also, San Francisco is 37 degrees north latitude. 
Goodell (talk) 05:55, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, got it. Fair enough. Brycehughes (talk) 06:33, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The latitude of California's north-south division 

message: I hate to break it to you all, but NorCal is everything from Sacramento and North. The whole landscape changes, there are no major cities, and the culture changes. We don't want to have the bay area idiots lumped into our great part of the state, thanks. 2601:200:4400:74B0:980B:F470:82FF:2033 (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bay Area isn't Northern California. 

message: There's no cite for the claim that 
And it's pretty implausible.  Tulare, Kings, Inyo, Fresno counties?  I don't think those are "popularly" taken to be NorCal.  They're Central or Eastern California, not Northern.  (The Bay Area is a separate discussion — it's true that it's very distinct from the far north of the state, but on the other hand it's what a lot of people specifically mean when they say Northern California.  Sacramento, or at least its burbs, feel more like Central California than either definition of Northern despite the high latitude, but again we can save that for later.)
We shouldn't be promulgating this uncited and I think inaccurate claim about the "popular" meaning. --Trovatore (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Popularly"