San Francisco is in America.
California is a state located in the Western United States . Northern California , often abbreviated NorCal , is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California . San Francisco . After the war , the confluence of returning servicemen , massive immigration , liberalizing attitudes , along with the rise of the `` hippie '' counterculture , the Sexual Revolution , the Peace Movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War , and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement , cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States .