The Economist is such a strange magazine sometimes. It seems to think California is falling from some Golden Age without much but hand-wavy references and oddb

The Economist is such a strange magazine sometimes. It seems to think California is falling from some Golden Age without much but hand-wavy references and oddball stats. > "the state’s demography is now at odds with Californians’ sense of their home state as “a place where we can play in the sun” (to quote the Beach Boys)." > As a result, California has lost a component of its former diversity: the sense that it is a place where people from all over America come to make good. > Yet if the state is ethnically more diverse, it is less of a melting pot in a different way: it used to be a place where everyone came from somewhere else. What is up with these statements? They list demographic changes as though they are a crushing blow to California's sense of self. > Another sign is that half the states’ foreign-born immigrants are citizens, the highest share for 40 years. This is a problem? What a strange metrics to pull out. > Perhaps you have to be rich and educated to move to California. "California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see;" "But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot" "If you ain't got the do re mi." -- Woody Guthrie, 1937 https://www.songfacts.com/facts/woody-guthrie/do-re-mi https://www.songfacts.com/facts/woody-guthrie/do-re-mi