a "Red Sea."
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Writing in 1889, Britain's James Bryce found California to be "the most striking state in the Union . . . capable of standing alone in the world." Lord Bryce was neither the first nor last commentator to accept the state on its own mythic terms. In- deed, scholars have lately begun to study California as if it were a separate country, one on which the neighboring United States has come to rely for sophisticated technology, specialty...