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en-wikipedia-org-6266		West Coast of the United States - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4305	684	65	For census purposes, Hawaii is part of the West Coast, along with the other four states.[2] Encyclopædia Britannica refers to the North American region as part of the Pacific Coast, including Alaska and British Columbia. The West Coast of the United States has an oceanic climate in its Northwestern, Northern, and Eastern edge towards the U.S.-Canada border, but from the California border towards the U.S.-Mexico border the climate is mediterranean. In 2017, The Oregonian columnist David Sarasohn described the West Coast as a "blue wall" of shared values on immigration, abortion, climate change, and civil liberties.[8] By 2016, the West Coast states legalized marijuana after California voted to do so.[9] According to a 2019 Pew Research Center poll, 72% of adults in Pacific states said that "climate change is affecting their local community at least some," higher than in any other region in the country.[10] California's history first as a major Spanish colony, and later Mexican territory, has given the lower West Coast a distinctive Hispanic American tone, which it also shares with the rest of the Southwest.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6266.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6266.txt