Mexicans Migrants on the road with tire trouble (California, 1936).Photo by Dorothea Lange for the U.S. Farm Security Administration
California
It's not really coincidental that so much of the actual violence over the so-called culture wars has taken place in the very liberal cities of the West Coast. As I.
Rachel Cohen has a good run-down of a recent study in California that did demographic data on the homeless. There are some interesting findings here: Their final report, the California.
Cesar Chavez, the head of the United Farm Workers Union, calls for the resignation of Walter Kintz, the first legal counsel for the state Agriculture Labor Relations Board, in Sacramento, Calif., on Sept. 16, 1975. Chavez's efforts in California culminated in landmark legislation that protected...
Company housing for Mexican cotton pickers on a large ranch in Corcoran, California, 1940
The Sacramento flood of 1862.
More anti-Mexican violence for LGM's core of racist commenters who think that the U.S. conquest of northern Mexico was a-ok. White soldiers looking for Mexicans to beat, Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, June 1943
We continue our needed lessons on the history of American colonization of northern Mexico, desperately needed by a racist group of LGM commenters who seem to think that "people move.
Hydraulic mining, Marin County, California, 1908
While the University of California has come to an agreement with one of its three striking unions--the postdocs--the other unions remain on strike. Fundamentally, this is a straightforward issue--the University of California is a tremendously wealthy institution. The cost of living is very high. The...
John Wayne's statue at John Wayne / Orange County Airport (SNA) We sometimes forget now just how important southern California is to the rise of the conservative movement, especially in.
While I grant that the politics of dams and fish are not the topic of greatest interest at a site focused on national politics, I want to highlight this really.