Middle Class Leaving CA

Troy Senik, writing for National Review Online, about why California politics ignores the needs of its disappearing middle class.

In political terms, the explanation is rather simple: California is a state that owes its regnant liberalism to a political alliance between the super-rich and the super-poor.

I would add "as well as the large and growing number of government employees, many of whose jobs focus on the poor." California, with 12% of the U.S. population, has 33% of U.S. welfare recipients. Meanwhile middle class jobs migrate to Texas, and elsewhere.