California might have had a reputation at one time as a progressive, future-oriented place, and it still has that to some extent because of Silicon Valley. But that reputation doesn’t really match up with the trends since the 1970′s, when the state stopped building infrastructure in accordance to the limits-to-growth ideology that took hold in some of the state’s politicians, notably Jerry Brown.
California might have had a reputation at one time as a progressive, future-oriented place, and it still has that to some extent because of Silicon Valley. But that reputation doesn’t really match up with the trends since the 1970′s, when the state stopped building infrastructure in accordance to the limits-to-growth ideology that took hold in some of the state’s politicians, notably Jerry Brown.