{"id":302,"date":"2026-06-08T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=302"},"modified":"2026-06-08T07:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:07:44","slug":"californias-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fans of outlaw country music will recall an old song called \u201cGood Time Charlie\u2019s Got the Blues,\u201d which appeared on Waylon Jennings\u2019s 1973 album Lonesome, On\u2019ry, and Mean<\/em>. Grok tells me that the original version of the song\u2014a folk-pop version, written and performed by Danny O\u2019Keefe and released the year before\u2014was the \u201chit\u201d version, but I\u2019d be willing to bet that<\/span> Waylon\u2019s take is better remembered today.<\/p>\n

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In any case, the song, which is about loneliness, regret, fading youth, and feeling left behind, starts with the lyrics. \u201cEverybody\u2019s gone away \/ Said they\u2019re movin\u2019<\/span> to L.A. \/ Ain\u2019t a soul I know around\/everybody\u2019s<\/span> leaving town.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what people did back then\u201453 years ago\u2014when things were going poorly in their hometown or their home state or wherever. They moved to L.A. \u201cFind<\/span> the sunshine\/Leave the rain.\u201d In America\u2014\u201cthe land of opportunity\u201d\u2014California was the pinnacle of that maxim. It was \u201copportunity\u201d beyond compare.<\/p>\n

And it wasn\u2019t just in 1973. The American move to California is the demographic story of the 20th century. California\u2019s population rose from under two million in 1900 to 10 million by 1950. It then more than tripled in the second half of the century, reaching 34 million by 2000. The most explosive growth came in the 1940s: the state grew from roughly 6.9 million in 1940 to 10.6 million in 1950, an increase of about 75 percent. In every census from 1930 to 2000, California added more residents than any other state, and by 1970 it had secured the top position in total population.<\/p>\n

All of this was<\/span> reflected in the popular culture. When Jed Clampett struck \u201cblack gold\u201d on his property in 1962, his \u201ckinfolk said, \u2018Jed, move away from there.\u2019<\/span> They said, \u2018Californee<\/span> is the place you oughtta<\/span> be.\u2019 So they loaded up the truck, and they moved to Beverley\u2014Hills<\/span> that is.\u201d Of course, Jed, Grannie, Jethro, and Ellie Mae were nearly a quarter century behind Tom Joad, who loaded up his own Ma and Pa (and the rest of his family) and headed West on Route 66, along with \u201cthousands\u201d of other Okies, all migrating to California and \u201cthe promised land.\u201d In truth, of course, the Joads and the Okies made up a very small<\/span> percentage of those who moved to California in and after the Great Depression. More than half a million people left the southern plains states\u2014Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri\u2014in the 1930s, mostly heading for California. Few of them, however, were farmers like the Joads.<\/p>\n

Data from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows migrants from the Dust Bowl region were actually no more<\/span> likely to move to California than migrants from other parts of the U.S., and farmers were the least likely to move. Farmers tended to remain at home and retain their assets, while others fled. The depopulation of the southern plains was driven less by a mass exodus than by a collapse of new people moving in.<\/span><\/p>\n

While most other states struggled, California reaped the benefits. By the late 1950s, all ten of the largest migration flows involving California were inflows, generally from Midwest<\/span> and Northeast states. Continuing prosperity and migration from other states roughly doubled California\u2019s population again to nearly 20 million by 1970.<\/p>\n

This was the Golden Era for the Golden State.<\/p>\n

And why shouldn\u2019t it have been? California was, in many ways, heaven on earth. The weather, the geographical beauty, the<\/span> bounty of the land were largely unmatched\u2014not just in the United States, but anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

Additionally, California was uniquely and assertively governed. For most of its Golden Era, California was a \u201cbuilder state.\u201d Jobs were plentiful, in part because the federal government was expanding its footprint by adding billions of dollars to defense and technology contracts, an overwhelming percentage of which went to California-based companies.<\/p>\n

The state itself bought into the Hooverian version of Progressivism, based on the belief that nature can be \u201charnessed\u201d rather than \u201csubdued\u201d and can, therefore, be put in service to its human \u201cmasters.\u201d From the 1930s through the mid-1960s, Sacramento radiated a specific energy: governance as a construction project. The federal Central Valley Project (1937), Shasta Dam, the freeway network, and above all, Pat Brown\u2019s State Water Project (authorized 1960)\u2014an undertaking Brown himself compared to the pyramids\u2014expressed a bipartisan consensus that the government\u2019s job was to move water, pour concrete, and make room for more people. The University of California Master Plan of 1960, drafted under Clark Kerr, extended this logic to human capital. Under his vision, every Californian was entitled to a place in a top-quality public higher education system, tuition-free. The Master Plan\u2014and California\u2019s vision more generally\u2014constituted one of the most ambitious social contracts any American state had ever proposed.<\/p>\n

Because of the state\u2019s largely unmatched natural resources, including its ability to attract people from other states, it all worked beautifully.<\/span> Until it didn\u2019t<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Cracks began to form in the mid-1960s, when the state\u2019s more traditional progressivism began to give way to a more radical, culture-based leftism, starting especially in the Bay area\u2014San<\/span> Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and so on. But even then, California was lucky. In November 1966, the state\u2019s enormous but often ignored middle class revolted against its progressive ruling class. Two-term Democratic Governor Pat Brown lost his second reelection bid in a landslide to Ronald Reagan. Although Reagan\u2019s two terms as the state\u2019s chief executive may appear tame or \u201cmoderate\u201d by the standards of his two terms as the nation\u2019s<\/em> chief executive, they were nevertheless exactly what California needed at the moment. Reagan\u2019s zero-tolerance approach to the unrest on state college campuses, his budget discipline, and his aggressive reform of the state\u2019s welfare system all helped to squelch the impression that California was flailing. The state\u2019s population and economy continued to grow, as the Golden Era got its second wind<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, however, all good things must end, as they say, and when Reagan left office in January 1976, he was replaced by his predecessor\u2019s son, Jerry Brown\u2014that is, \u201cGovernor Moonbeam.\u201d While the younger Brown was far more fiscally conservative than either his father or any of his successors, he was also far more socially leftist. Whereas his father represented an era of positive, growth-oriented progressivism, Jerry Brown was an environmentalist, a cultural radical,<\/span> a skeptic of \u201cunchecked\u201d growth. Jerry Brown\u2019s tenure in Sacramento represented a radical shift in California\u2019s governance philosophy\u2014and it also represented a radical shift in California\u2019s fortunes.<\/p>\n

In his 1971 hit \u201cI Am I Said,\u201d Neil Diamond starts by saying (singing, I guess), \u201cL.A.\u2019s fine\/the sun shines most the time\/And<\/span> the feeling is lay<\/span> back\/Palm<\/span> trees grow and rents are low . . .\u201d At the time, rents were<\/em> low. But that didn\u2019t last. Once Brown refocused the state away from growth and toward environmentalism and other culture-centric issues, the \u201cbuilder-state\u201d collapsed, the construction of middle-class homes collapsed, and rents soared. Indeed, California\u2019s Golden Era itself collapsed. That change, coupled with the unforeseen consequences of the state\u2019s famous\/infamous Proposition 13, crushed the state\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

By the end of Brown\u2019s first term, California was very clearly<\/span> losing its appeal for many Americans. The cost of living rose due to the new \u201climits of growth\u201d ideology, local policy choices, and the anti-growth incentives of Prop. 13, and wages stagnated. The result was migratory inertia in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s. It is hardly fair to blame all of this<\/span> on one person, especially since that one person is probably the most competent and fiscally conservative governor in the state\u2019s recent history, but it\u2019s also hard not to notice that the vibe shift that accompanied Jerry Brown\u2019s rise to power also coincided with the state\u2019s faltering appeal. To be clear, California has had as many Republican governors since Reagan as it has had Democratic governors. But none of that changes the fact that the state largely shifted to a cultural and environmental progressivism in the late 1970s and has been falling apart dramatically ever since.<\/span><\/p>\n

The true turning point came<\/span> around 1989. California has had a net loss<\/em> of domestic migrants every year since then. The period from 1995 to 2000 marked the first time since such data had been measured that California saw net domestic outmigration<\/em> over a five-year period. During that span, 1.4 million people moved to California from other states, but 2.2 million left<\/span><\/em>. By the late 1990s, nine of the 10 largest migration flows involving California represented people leaving rather than arriving. Since 1990, the state has lost nearly 3.4 million residents through net domestic outmigration, with the flow running mainly to Texas, Nevada, Arizona, and the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that during most of this period, from 1983 to 1999, California had Republican governors\u2014George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson. They were largely ineffective at undoing the damage done, however. The state\u2019s ethos had shifted so profoundly that neither they nor Arnold Schwarzenegger, another Republican, dared to challenge the environmental limits-to-growth consensus.<\/p>\n

Today, California is anything but a Golden State. It is profoundly broken. It has the highest out-migration in the country. It has the greatest income inequality in the country. It has the highest income tax rate in the country, the second-highest cost of housing, the sixth-highest homelessness rate, the second-highest cost of living, and, by far, the largest state budget deficit. The state\u2019s feeble and repeated attempts to build a high-speed rail system are archetypal. Corruption and cronyism hinder important projects and undermine much of the state\u2019s massive private economy.<\/p>\n

The point here is that no state has ever had more natural advantages than California. And no state has ever squandered them so quickly. The state\u2019s early progressive governance was successful for a while, largely because of the state\u2019s enormous resources, but that success couldn\u2019t last forever. \u201cHeaven on earth\u201d is a utopian fantasy, after all, no matter how beautiful the state. Even so, it is amazing<\/span>\u2014and frankly shocking\u2014how quickly demographic and cultural collapse has followed the state\u2019s meteoric rise. Right now<\/span>, the nation watches to see if Californians still have the wherewithal to change their circumstances and elect new leadership, but are dumbfounded by the venality and intransigence of the state\u2019s ruling class.<\/p>\n

California had everything\u2014and still does. Nothing about the state\u2019s natural advantages has changed. It\u2019s all still there. To quote the late, great Charles Krauthammer, \u201cNothing is inevitable.<\/span> Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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