The Washington Post, August 11th, 2003
Like the earth beneath it, social and political California erupts in all manner of ways. There are inner-city riots; Los Angeles was the only American city in the second half of the 20th century that was home to two of them. For the past decade, there have been the far more orderly strikes and demonstrations of the largely Latino immigrant working class, a latter-day version of the immigrant protests that shaped New York's Lower East Side a century ago. California's most distinctive social upheavals, however, are neither those of the working class nor of the lumpen, but those that the broader,...
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