"I don't hate the people, just the government" is something people say when they want to make prejudiced, often racist, comments about a country and its people based on zero evidence. For some reason that cannot yet be explained, the people who use this line almost always say stuff that would cause others to think they hate the people.
I don't hate the people, just the government. That's why we need to ban the Chinese from coming to our country until they become civi... I mean democratic. We'll call it the Chinese Ex... Anti-Communist Act.
Inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area being solely proud of their region, not state. Made famous in "Muscle Cars" by E-40 feat. Keak da Sneak and Turf Talk.
"We rep. the Bay, we don't rep. California" is the code I go by, representing the Bay to the fullest!