Megan West(erby)

"The rest of the nation has a tendency to overstate the troubles of California when it’s doing badly and understate its successes when it does well. 13% of the U.S. GDP comes from California. Alone, it would be the world’s 5th largest economy. However, the real sin committed by the other 49 states is a failure to acknowledge the primacy of California in the national economy."

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Is California Becoming a Third World Nation? - Japhy Grant - California Stars - True/Slant

Japhy has some really smart things to say here. He never gets around to specifically calling out the US’s Northeast bias but I can read between the lines.

16 March 2010 ·