middle california

MIDDLE CALIFORNIA

Wherein the degradation and collapse of the state of California is best understood as merely another rust belt city.  Having been born and raised in the state of California, I never saw the collapse of the place.  It was too close and too incremental, and I was too young to note the decline.  After I left for four years of military service, and having gotten an idea of how things were different elsewhere, only then did I realize the place had kind of gone to Hell without notice as I wasn’t looking.  Even Korea was in many ways, even being a dictatorship at the time, a nicer place.

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I just watched a video on the “white flight” of the state, quite by accident.  Even today I am loath to view things through a racial lens-not because it is the politically correct thing to do but because my dad didn’t raise me that way and I have an immense respect for the man.  But once you translate that into tribe or cultural cohesion, then it makes perfect sense and leaves no bad taste behind.  It seems that only twenty years ago California was 50% White whereas now it is a mere 35%, where Hispanics are now up to 40%.  As the video said, it is now “their” state.

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And while all of this demographic shifting has implications ( let them have the place, just leave Nevada be ), I was more struck by the economics of the situation ( although it was interesting to note that Compton had at one time been so lily white that the Bush family resided there ).  The video creator was in effect blaming those of color for trashing the place, but I was thinking that this was more a beachhead that was exploited after the economic implosion.  I was living there at the time, and didn’t realize the economic impact of the end of Cold War spending.  All I knew was that U-Haul was charging me several times normal as a lot of people were moving out of state.

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I was moving with the semi gun weapons ban as an excuse, even though I had wanted to flee for some five years by that time.  I even tried prior to that and kids, but the culture shock was too much ( not so bad when we moved to Oklahoma-nice folks there.  I never considered I was reversing the Depression flow of migration ).  The economic collapse kind of went over my head there-and I had already started writing a survival newsletter/’zine.  Of course, in my defense, at that time I was more of a “one year to recovery “nuke era” prepper.  That quickly changed with research, but the simple undeniable fact was that I was oblivious to events ( of course, also in my defense, I had spent the last decade studying Austrian School economics and was hence learned wrong ).

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Looking back now, I didn’t even have a clue how bad things were still to come.  When I was there, the climate still had a tinge of Middle Earth to it.  The dream of the middle class lifestyle with perfect scenery and weather thrown in had not yet died.  I imagine that is what the poor humpers still trapped there, lying to themselves how wonderful the place still is, still believe.  They must believe, with all their might, or be buried under a sea of despair.  Please sir, where do I sign up for an extra helping of delusion?

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Least one forget, California used to be one of the globes largest oil producers.  That built the southern zone.  The Cold War spending and Hollywood brought all the wealth to the area now tied up in real estate nobody wanted to admit was worthless desert ( the LA real estate bubble has lasted about a hundred years-when it lasts that long, a delusion turns to a fable ).  I think the early 90’s Cold War spending implosion was just the straw that broke the camels back, but again I was once too close to view things properly, then after far away and turning a blind eye.  But if you view through the lens of failed economic states, ignoring the question of exact timing or causes, it makes sense WHY the state is how it is at this point ( military spending might have crashed the economy, Political Correctness is now driving a stake through its heart ).

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If you look now at any Rust Belt city-Cleveland or Detroit, Buffalo or Milwaukee-they have been imploding since the ‘60’s.  Crime and racial tensions were there prior to the economic and oil supply shocks sending their lifeblood to Asia ( we were subsidizing Korean/Japanese steel industries even back to the ’50’s, as a stabilizer against communism.  If effect, we destabilized our own industrial economy for newer equipment, cheaper labor and geopolitics ), and exploded once the economy did.  Everything you saw and are seeing in now third world cities of our Rust Belt happened in California after about a thirty year pause.

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Minions in California, please note.  I’m NOT saying you should flee right this minute.  I’m saying that even if certain areas ( cough, Oakland ) are already Third World economies with third world populations, you haven’t seen anything yet.  The whole state is headed that direction.  The Rust Belt cities experienced a flood of Blacks, but the entire STATE of California has been buried under a sea of Mexicans.  The eastern craphole cities are still surrounded by white enclaves.  The state of California, not just certain cities, will be a third world population center.  You don’t allow unrestricted immigration and then not turn into Muzzie London.

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Look back East and see how once economically vibrant cities are foreigner infested slums now.  California is on that exact same path.  Perhaps some areas will remain untouched, other than ruinous taxes and regulations.  But those areas have no economy.  You should really be thinking of selling, now, while the bubble is still inflated in real estate.  When that sucker goes…

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