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Surfin' USA
What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead
The Importance of California in the 1960s
As the Dust Bowl spread in Oklahoma, thousands of people fled to California. Writers like Steinbeck and generally on the left said this migration was proof that American capitalism had definitively failed. Richard Nixon begins it, Ronald Reagan kind of carries it forward with his Sun Belt conservative Republican Party. What happened? Part of it is AP, Gini, 30s year self-amortizing mortgage,. The rise of suburban California culture creates enormous prosperity.
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