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The tarnished Golden State; California America's High-Stakes Experiment Peter Schrag University of California Press: 330 pp., $24.95
2006
Overview
On immigration, for instance, \"now that the state's future depends in large measure on the children of Mexicans, Salvadorans, Filipinos, Indians, Koreans and Pakistanis,\" [Peter Schrag] asks, are \"the voters, who remain disproportionately Anglo white, willing to provide the schools, universities and other services that they provided when the beneficiaries were the children of Iowans, Kansans and Nebraskans?\" (Short answer: Not so far.) Was the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger \"the end of the old order in California's politics and perhaps in the nation's?\" (Probably not, but stay tuned.) And finally, since California has become so culturally fractured, \"is it governable at all?\" (We shall see.) Demographically, California has uneasily absorbed the richest, wildest mix imaginable. Culturally, the state nurtures Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, artists of startling range and such first- generation literary voices as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Khaled Hosseini. California, Schrag offers, has become the \"great political and social laboratory, the site of the ultimate test of whether a society so large and diverse could successfully integrate the diversity into an effective modern democracy in a postindustrial age. No nation had ever tried anything like it.\" It's a schism, Schrag says, that is \"as much cultural as anything else -- on issues of faith, family and values; on guns and gays, affirmative action and abortion; on NASCAR dads and soccer moms.\" Gated suburban enclaves further shred the we're-all-in-this- together social fabric, already frayed because \"many of the Indians and Taiwanese in the Silicon Valley have closer connections with Mumbai or Taipei than they do with the Mexican immigrants working in the kitchens down the street.\"
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Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
