It isn't a eulogy for California isn't dead, but it is certainly a discussion-at-length of California's peculiar state of decline. He talks about the coastal culture of childless homes, secular mores, and the green fixation. And he contrasts it with the interior agricultural area in decline.
Hanson makes several good points, among them these:
Why doesn’t everyone leave? The answer is simple: for the coastal overdogs there is nowhere else where the money is as good and the weather and scenery are as enjoyable. How much would you pay to walk in cut-offs in February and not in three jackets in Montana? And for the interior underclass, California’s entitlements and poor-paying service jobs are paradise compared to Honduras, Jalisco, or Southeast Asia.
