"A friend of mine says everything bad in the country always seems to come from California. And he doesn't mean the earthquakes, fires, floods, and riots. His list is long and impressive: Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, all the major defence contractors, Disneyland, the John Birch Society, Congressman Bob Dornan, the anti-immigration movement, Prop. 13 (the anti-tax initiative), the Mighty Ducks, Charles Manson. I told him that, other than Manson, everything he mentioned actually has one connecting thread: Orange County, California, a massive sprawl of land and people between Los Angeles and San Diego. Nixon was born there, Reagan got 75 percent of the vote there, and a big statue of the Duke, who lived and died there, greets you upon landing at Orange County's John Wayne Airport. Orange County has been called the "spiritual base" for America's conservatives-and every loony, right-wind idea we've had to fight over the years seems to have got its start in Orange County" e continua.. from Michael Moore, Downsize this! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, 1996.
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