August 17, 2012
IT'S POPULATION IS TOO LARGE ANYWAY:
There Is No California : Palo Alto and Fresno share a state government, but that's about it. (Victor Davis Hanson, 8/16/12, National Review)
With almost 40 million people it is at the outer margin of state size for economically successful democratic polities anyway. It should be split up."California" is a misnomer. There is no such state. Instead there are two radically different cultures and landscapes with little in common, the two equally dysfunctional in quite different ways. Apart they are unworldly; together, a disaster.A postmodern narrow coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley; there the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life is becoming premodern.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 17, 2012 5:22 AM
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