I'm not sure that the title accurately reflects the article that people don't want to devalue their home values by moving apartment blocks next to their million dollar homes. Somehow everyone in California is a liberal, and the article cites Massachusetts as a state allowing denser urban areas. Maybe the article would be better titled wealthy people in suburbs don't want apartments next to their homes. Reading other articles by the author he seems to think the only things that matter happen in San Francisco. Might want to get out of his bubble. There's a wide range of liberals and conservatives with a wide range of perspectives in a country as large as ours.