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Old 04-02-2018, 10:22 AM
 
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This is an article from Victor Davis Hansen, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University (Emphasis added by Mr. Hansen)


https://www.nationalreview.com/2010/...-davis-hanson/
It is indeed interesting, and still relevant in spite of being an older article. I've shared it a few times myself.
Two different standards are also practiced outside of the valley as well. I live in a nice suburb in So. Cal (renting in one of the cheaper apartments so I'm not automatically rich, lol!) and talked to a sheriff overseeing the training for a youth group called the Explorers doing a police checkpoint. We chatted a bit and I found out that if a driver comes through who is obviously "poor" and doesn't have the proper registration usually is waved on because they don't want to waste time with people who can't pay the penalties.

BTW, the divide continues to deepen especially now with rents being sky high outside of the valley.

Every state has it's problems of course... California's weather is still perfect!
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Old 04-02-2018, 03:19 PM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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Its like having Mississippi and Manhattan as neighbors.
Drive less than two hours north of NYC and you’ll think you’re in Mississippi. My wife is from there and I was surpried at the poverty of some of the small town, or lack of towns, just single/double wide trailers with broken down cars out front, dotting the roads as we drove across the state. You’ll find this in every state, don’t know why California would be any different.
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