750-1000 words; use your own words; provide pointers to where you got any information that is not your direct personal experience or "common knowledge"; due Friday November 13 at 5 PM.
In the generation after World War II, California bet on social democracy: fueled by large federal defense expenditures and by the migration of Americans to the resource- and sun-rich west, California set out on a high tax, high infrastructure, high public education system, high social welfare benefits trajectory. Then come 1979 all that changed: California voters turned, and for the past generation they have been voting in larger numbers for politicians who and referenda that seek to transform California into a low-tax state.
Briefly, research and narrate how you understand the course of California state politics since this shift in 1979--what Robert Kuttner called "the revolt of the haves."
Write 750-1000 words. Submissions of less than 750 words will receive grouchy readings. Submissions of more than 1000 words will receive grouchy readings. There is a symmetry here.
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