Orange Curtain
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The Orange Curtain is a term used to describe the border between Orange County, California and Los Angeles County. It is also used to denote the checkpoint between Orange County, California and San Diego County, where the Border Patrol regularly stops traffic to intercept illegal immigrants.
It is a sometimes derogatory, sometimes light-hearted term, depending on context. Residents of Orange County are more conservative and suburban than their more-liberal big-city neighbors, but it could be argued the former are more classic yuppies. Some even lobby to secede from the rest of California to form the "State of Orange," and many of its secessionist ideas name themselves "orange curtains."
The Orange Curtain is a word play on the infamous Iron Curtain which separated communist and capitalist Europe.
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