Word: northerners
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...previous page should understand one thing: my colleague is a native Southern Californian. The few people who can claim that dubious honor are drilled from childhood to think of my part of the state as the evil empire. Come to think of it, a former Governor once believed Northern California was a far more dangerous place than that den of evil, Grenada. Since most of the water coming out of the lawn sprinklers in Bel Air and since all the ice cubes solidifying themselves at this very moment in Beverly Hills' kitchens originate in the north, Mr. Reagan, that quintessential...
...that we would. If one thing characterizes Northern California and the city in which I live, it is tolerance for all manner of human behavior that confounds and enrages folks in other parts of the country. For example, I live next door to a gay synagogue. During the gulf war, demonstrators against U.S. involvement gathered at the synagogue before going off to protest. Two women carried a sign saying LESBIAN ZIONISTS FOR PEACE. Not my point of view, actually, but they're certainly entitled...
Then there is the wine. Someone who was bred in New Jersey doesn't naturally develop an affinity for the grape. But even a brief residence in Northern California transforms the newcomer into a wine aficionado. Now I can't get enough of those Zinfandels, Syrahs and Pinots. Salut, Napa and Sonoma...
...entire culture, for that matter, is derivative. The cramped, dark Victorian houses (going for $2 million) are borrowed from the English, the ivory (mostly opaque plastic) figurines from the Chinese, and the vineyards from northern Italy. There's no homegrown movie business; in fact the town has missed the video age, focused instead on grainy foreign films, which seem to be unreeling in every theater. Although the smug intelligentsia of Stanford and Berkeley blanch at the mention of her name, the area's best-selling author is Danielle Steel. To be sure, Los Angeles is no stranger to mass-market...
...underground crack economy. Though drive-by shootings continue, there is evidence that the crack problem is waning, a fact overlooked by the national media. News organizations blame blacks for the drug problem and ignore the participation in the drug trade of other ethnic groups, but drug dealing in Northern California and other parts of the country is a multicultural enterprise. Yet during early August, NBC aired the typical black-grandmothers- raising-crack-babies story, when there are plenty of suburban white grandparents in the same situation...