The story of California so far
Here’s a summary by Michael Barone. The concluding paragraph:
California’s divergence from the rest of the nation politically, on top of its continued domestic out-migration and, over the last decade, slower than average population growth, make it clear that it no longer is a harbinger of the nation’s future. It has gone off on its own, for better or worse, and most of the nation has charted its own course, a few closely resembling California’s, many quite different. That may seem odd, and perhaps off-putting, for those who grew up in the era when California seemed to be the model toward which the nation was aspiring. But a longer perspective, taking account of California from the time Richard Henry Dana recorded the aboriginal version of smog in the Los Angeles Basin and the American flag was first raised over Monterey and San Francisco Bays, suggests that the natural state of things is for California, off on one coast of America, with its unusual climate and atypical economy, to be distinctive, even idiosyncratic—adding its own savory and sweet flavor to America’s multivarious stew. The influx of Americans in the great domestic migration to California in the quarter century from 1940 to 1965 made California a plausible model for the rest of the United States, but the great immigrant migration in the quarter century from 1982 to 2007 has made it, once again, a commonwealth of its own.
I’d caution Barone not to be too sure of that. If the Biden administration and the left (redundant, I know) is successful in its policy towards illegal immigration, California may once again point the way to America’s future.
California really *was* the Golden State. And liberals wrecked it.
The next big thing is the coming electricity blackouts. The insane policy of unreliable solar and wind power is going to create all sorts of pain and losses. Power prices way up. Beyond stupid. CAGW is a scam.
Cornhead,
Yup reality has started to ‘interfere’ with their “best laid plans”.
Newsome and the democrats want to end the sale of all gasoline powered vehicles by 2035. No doubt punitive measures are planned for those citizens that fail to get the memo. So californians are being ‘encouraged’ and propagandized to transition to electric cars.
Calfornia increasingly gets its power from wind and sun. When the winds don’t blow and after the sun goes down, there’s a shortage in the production of energy supply. Most people work and when they get home is when electrical usage goes way up.
In reaction to the severe heat in the West, now we have the state encouraging those electric car owners to put off charging their cars at night… what to do when you have to be at work the next morning?
Ah the irony, it’s literally Shakespearean.
I lived in California for over 40 years. Such a rich, beautiful place. I was fortunate. It’s heartbreaking to see how its government has run it down.
However, unlike many sad, unpleasant places, California just has to stop doing a lot of stupid things and start doing a few smart things to turn itself around. It wouldn’t take long.
Of course, that’s no guarantee California will turn around.
I don’t know if Illinois was ever a California Dreamin’ kind of state…before the Great Depression perhaps?
Here’s how much the CommieCrat fraud election bought Illinois’ wasteful and corruptoCratic Rulers, in latest numbers: $138 billion
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/federal-cash-illinois-vastly-more-commonly-reported-138-billion-and-counting
New York shows the way. Shut down a power plant. Then have brownouts and power shut offs during a heat wave. Blame “global warming.”
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/459449/
I expect more of this in States that are run by Democrats. The new normal in the blue regions.
I want to leave California due to insane politics, taxes, prices,crowding, and so on, but God it’s hard to leave the almost perfect year-round weather of the 10 mile strip along the SoCal coast. Go ten more miles inland and the weather isn’t any different from Texas. Very strange place but perfect if you can afford to get within that strip.
I will eventually leave, just need to find a place that doesn’t have hot summers or cold winters, mostly speaks English and has sane politics. Any suggestions?
Alabama and Mississippi are cooler than Texas, have honest governments and mild winters. Mississippi has the largest number of state-wide Black elected officials in the USA, a majority of whom are Republicans. Depending upon your livelihood, those states might be good options. The people are friendly, and if you make it plain that you have not brought Commie voting habits from California, would be welcoming. Georgia, outside of Atlanta, is also quite pleasant. Remember, though, that Atlanta is a metastasizing cancer, constantly growing across North Georgia.