Promise, But No Miracles, Offered At New UC Merced Campus
1 October 2005 - 12:00am
| Author: William Fulton
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Forty years ago, the Watts riots shattered the postwar illusion of California as a middle-class paradise. Combined with other events, the Watts riots led to the political demise of Gov. Pat Brown, the rise of Ronald Reagan, and – sometimes overlooked – the end of California’s investment in massive public works projects designed to benefit the middle class.
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