BLUE STATE BLUES: California has worst ‘quality of life’ in US, study says.

It’s actually pretty great there — if you’re rich. For everyone else, it’s clogged (and broken) highways, unaffordable rents and mortgages, filthy streets, beggars, rural destitution, and endless nannystatism.

But if you understand progressivism as a system of high-tech feudalism, then California’s high-low split is exactly what California’s progressives have been aiming for.