Two descriptions of my home county, Orange (California), in two national magazines:
“Cuckoo land.” Newsweek, 1964 (“The Double Life of Orange County.”)
“Nut country.” Fortune, 1968. (“Can Anyone Stop Goldwater Now?”)
And! Don’t forget— its conservative populace with a “pathological lust for power … command-like tactics, and a Mein Kampf program.” The Nation, 1964. (“Putsch in the GOP.”)
(via Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right.)
P.S. I will not be making my annual trip home, this year. There are archives to tend to. (Will I miss home? This is a question I always find difficult to answer.)
