BUT THEY'RE SO INTELLECTUAL AND SOPHISTICATED – San Francisco once again pledges allegiance to...well, you'll figure it out.  From Fox:

U.S. automakers are having a banner year in 2011. Sales are up and so are profits. And they’re doing it without much help from the city of San Francisco.

On April 29, the last domestic car dealership within city limits, San Francisco Ford Lincoln, closed its showroom doors and began winding down its repair and service operations, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Business had fallen off so much over the past few years that Ford Motor Co. itself had taken over the operation from its previous owner, but even support from the mother ship couldn’t keep it afloat.

Foreign automakers, including BMW, Honda, Scion and Smart, all continue to run what appear to be thriving dealerships in the area, as San Franciscans increasingly pledge their allegiance to import brands. Even the site of the last General Motors dealership to shut down in the city -- Ellis Brooks Chevrolet – is soon to be the home of a new mega-showroom for Nissan/Infiniti.

COMMENT:  I wonder if the San Fran crowd knows that many of those "foreign" cars it prefers – much better dinner table conversation – are actually made in the American South by non-union labor.  When they find out, will they boycott their cars?  Become Freedom Riders again?  Import directly from beloved countries like the People's Republic of China?

Stay tuned.  There may be a moral crisis coming in San Francisco.  First in its history.

May 13, 2011