Is This The California You Imagine?
We are far from the emerald cities along the Pacific Coast — very much detached from their knowledge industries and mythology factories by the sea — surrounded by hundreds of square miles of farmland reclaimed from desert, watered here by the Coachella Canal and its concrete tributaries, tended and inhabited by a population of brown-skinned people able to switch effortlessly between their dual (seemingly both native) languages: American English and Mexican Spanish.
