<p class="quote"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><strong class="quote">California&#160;is a&#160;<span style="font-weight: normal;">mess, but I love it all the same--especially the Bay Area, where I lived for 15 years. I went to Berkeley in 1962--a refugee from Amherst College, which at that time was dominated by frat boys with high SAT scores. I didn't go to Berkeley to go to school, but to be a bus ride away from North Beach and the Jazz Workshop. In a broader sense, I went to California for the same reason that other &#233;migr&#233;s had been going since the 1840s. I was knocking on the Golden Door.</span></strong></span></p> John B. Judis | The New Republic death of california, schwarzanegger, beatniks, height ashbury, john b. judis the-feed 0 2009-10-28T11:05:29-04:00 <p>"Could California's days as a politico-cultural vanguard and economic bellwether be coming to an end?"</p> 2 6281 the-death-of-california 2009-10-28T11:05:41-04:00 true false false false false The death of California 2009-10-28T11:05:41-04:00 http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/end-state?page=0,0#at 84 0