Compared to today was ‘Kansas on the Left Coast’–California–really such a bad place when it was primarily white?
Over the past several decades, California has evolved into the nation’s – and likely the hemisphere’s – most complex society.
A mostly white, conservative society – Kansas on the left coast, some said – two generations ago became a mélange of ethnicities, cultures, religions, lifestyles and economic subgroups. Or as Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz” told her dog, “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
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A commission dominated by agents of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, a Latino, and City Council President Herb Wesson, who is black, drafted a plan that is drawing fire from civil rights groups for not expanding opportunities to elect non-white council members.
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