Recalling the future: can a bizarre political process reverse California's transformation into a Democratic state?
American Prospect, The, October, 2003 by Meyerson, Harold
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I. HIRAM JOHNSON'S MESS The land may have been ours before we were the land's, as Robert Frost wrote, but not in California. The Progressives saw to that. When people arrived in my home state, there were no political institutions to reach out to them or provide an orientation; there was nothing they could join.
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Whether they came from the Midwest in the years before World War II, enticed by the glossy brochures with the pictures of orange groves that the chambers of commerce put out, or in desperation from Mexico during the past two decades, in flight from an economy in collapse, ...
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