Those of us with even a little gray hair remember a very different California.
When I graduated from my small-town Eastern Iowa high school in 1980, I initially had my sights set on Alaska, even then; but life had a very different fate in store for me, as I ended up staying in Iowa a little longer (there was a girl involved, who became my first wife) then the Army, then Colorado, and finally… Well, you know the rest.
A lot of the kids my age, though, set out for the West Coast. California, back then, was considered the land of endless opportunity: great climate, great scenery, and great economy. The Golden State, as was, had everything a young person with big plans could want.
Then came a Democrat supermajority in Sacramento and Democrat dominance of the state by the Los Angeles-Bay Area Axis, and California, these days, isn’t so golden anymore. But an…
