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Dowd - Iowa now California Cool
Apr. 12, 2009 6:49 am
It's enough to make Steve King lose sleep. From Maureen Dowd in this morning's New York Times:
California's having an identity crisis.White-bread, cornfed, understated Iowa was the first state to ratify the black rookie Barack Obama and has usurped the role everyone thought California would play as a leader in the fight to give gays the right to marry.
Once the West Coast glowed with prosperity and was the harbinger of hip new things. Now it's in the grip of recession and repression. California's cool has been stolen by, of all places, Iowa.
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