Word: californie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California seems to be a place where the nation's most progressive state court is forced to cool down the nation's most combustible voters. In 1964, Californi ans overwhelmingly approved amendments to their state constitution that prohibited pay-TV and rejected the fair-housing law that forbade discrimination in the sale or rental of private homes. The California Supreme Court subsequently voided both amendments as unconstitutional. This election day, the voters face another explosive issue: Proposition 16, which is aimed at sharply amending the state's anti-obscenity statute in order to "control the flood...
...Most of Californi's inhabitants have emigrated recently from the midwest and border states. These new citizens face the disturbing task of synthesizing the family-orientated, conservative moralism of their hometowns with the sun-seeking hedonism of a state still entranced with the glamorous legends of Hollywood. the synthesis has not yet been made, and beneath the pastel tranquillity of the California Suburbia the struggle between the two ways of life continues...
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