Word: californianism
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...Trekky Kingdom of Heaven--to mock them, in fact, for defying our belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members of Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, say, or that Tel Aviv terrorist, they seemed to have kept mostly to themselves and been principally guilty of credulity and self-delusion...
...played against the best players on both coasts, Zimmerman found it difficult to gain the respect his play merited. Traditionally, the best water polo players are found in California and on the West coast. In fact, all of this year's first and second Team all-Americans are from Californian universities. Consequently, upon hearing that Zimmerman was from the Midwest, many water polo experts refused to believe he could play with the best...
...shared my obsession with the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots with my classmates and friends. Here in college, however, fellow Bay-staters are harder to find, and what used to be a game between the Patriots and some other team has now become personal war with the Californian downstairs. Admittedly, Boston teams have not done that well lately. Three months ago, I had to sit by and watch in aggrieved silence while the New York Yankees won the World Series. The Red Sox had not had a chance, as usual, but this time, instead of turning off the television...
California is a monster state, in geography, population--and political influence. If it were a country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. One in eight U.S. residents, and one in eight members of Congress, is a Californian. Though it may have a reputation for being liberal and laid-back, the state--with a Republican governor--remains a battleground on issues from abortion to welfare...
...style dove and partisan Democrat, Brown is the longest serving Californian in Congress. Once chairman of the House Science Committee, he has made the space program a priority while ardently opposing space-based military systems. Yet winning his past several elections by increasingly slim margins--his 1994 victory was by 2,629 votes--Brown himself has been targeted as vulnerable by the G.O.P...