Californicate

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:09 AM -0800 3/25/02, James Smith wrote:
>The issue was not movement of people from CA to CO, as
>I understood it, but rather opening pristine mountain
>areas to development.

Hey, waitaminute--let's get those attributions right!   The "Please
explain the connection"  bit below was not what I wrote, but what I
was responding to (in a message not reproduced here).  I maintained
that "Californication" had to do with L.A.-type unbridled development
and sprawl, NOT with the influx of Californians.  (I didn't go on to
add in my message, but I might have, the additional fear that such
"Californication" would lead to L.A.-type smog in an area surrounded
by mountains, and to some extent that fear was justified.)

larry



>
>
>>>>>  Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> 03/22/02
>>>  08:23AM >>>
>>>  At 8:08 AM -0800 3/22/02, James Smith wrote:
>>>The first use of "californicate" I remember was
>>>  during
>>>the Colorado citizens campaign against the 1976
>>>  Winter
>>>Olympics.  Denver had been awarded the 1976 Winter
>>>Olympics, but a grassroots coalition helped pull
>>>  the
>>>plug.  The winter games were switched to Innsbruck
>>>after CO passed a law making it illegal to pay for
>>>events like the Olympics with state taxes. I
>>>  believe
>>>the law was passed in 1972, so "californicate"
>>>  should
>>>be in Denver newspapers from the early 70's.
>>>
>>
>>  Please explain the connection between the Oympic
>>  story and Californicating.  My understanding is that
>>  californicating involves large numbers of
>>  Californians moving into an area.  Were the
>>  Coloradans afraid that the Olympics would draw
>>  attention to CO and then CA'ians would move in?
>>
>....
>
>>
>>  larry
>
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