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Updated: May 25, 2025
"Every large city in Europe has a colony of Californians, all rooting for California as hard as they can, and all living as far away as they can possibly get." Myself, Californoia did not bother me for a long time after I first went to California.
Californians even those not suffering from an offensive case of Californoia speak of their State in reverential terms. To hear Maud Younger known everywhere as the "millionaire waitress" and the most devoted labor-fan in the country pronounce the word California, should be a lesson to any actor in emotional sound values.
A dinner party which included a globe-trotter, were listening to a victim of an advanced stage of Californoia. He had just disposed of the East, South and Middle West with a few caustic phrases and had started on his favorite subject. "You are certainly a wonderful people," the globe-trotter said, when he had finished.
Sometimes it actually casts a blight this Californoia on those who come to live in California. I remember saying once to a young man just in passing and merely to make conversation: "Are you a native son?" His face at once grew very serious. "No," he admitted reluctantly. "You see, it was my misfortune to be born in Iowa, but I came out here to college.
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