I liked this map so much I decided to read the whole article. It took a little digging, but here is the
story from KCHO.
I found two other maps in the story worth adding to the debate. This is from a Chico State geography professor who would quiz students, and find the average of their responses.
Another instructor in the same department had this map of the Central Valley based on respondents from Merced and Redding from the map posted by Oryxslayer.
What I found interesting was that both groups on this map put Kern in the same region Merced - the Central Valley. Yet even many of the Merced respondents in Oryxslayer's map would split Kern from Merced and put Kern in SoCal.
