California's Progressive Mosaic.
American Prospect, The, June, 2001 by MEYERSON, HAROLD
PA JOAD: Ain't you goin' with us?
CASEY: I'd like to. There's somethin' goin' on out there in the West, and I'd like to try and learn what it is.
--The Grapes of Wrath
More than 60 years after John Steinbeck's Oakies headed west, California retains its power to confound--or even astound. Over the past decade, America's megastate has been transformed beyond recognition, demographically, economically, politically. The state that only yesterday gave the nation Richard Nixon, Howard Jarvis's Proposition 13, and Ronald Reagan is today the nation's most reliably Democratic ...
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