"A quarter-century ago, in a series of Sacramento Bee articles that later morphed into a book, I described how California was undergoing dramatic economic and social change and quoted from a paper co-written by University of California at Davis economist Philip Martin about the state's future: 'The possible emergence of a two-tier economy with Asians and non-Hispanic whites competing for high-status positions while Hispanics and blacks struggle to get the low-paying service jobs'
The concept of a segmented, even segregated, California was somewhat revolutionary in the mid-1980s.
After all, wasn't California the embodiment of mobile egalitarianism?"