California-based demographer Joel Kotkin often deals with the mess into which California has gotten itself. Writing here for City Journal he continues to pursue that theme.
His main point here is that what is occurring in CA is a sort of class warfare in which the wealthy are shutting down growth and development in order to keep things nicer for themselves. Kotkin being Kotkin, he has the data to prove it.
The CA wealthy are doing very well indeed; pretty much everybody else is worse off than the rest of the country. As you'd expect, it turns out this model doesn't work very well.
