This process, one of trading the state to outside owners in exchange for their {it now seems} entirely temporary agreement to enrich us, in toher words the pauperization of California, had in fact begun at the time Americans first entered the state, took what they could, and, abetted by the native weekness for boosterism, set about selling the rest.
( Joan Didion )
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