The Oldest Divide

But the attractions of urbanization are not always strictly logical. Having a zip code in Silicon Valley and living in a 600-square-foot studio apartment apparently are preferable to enjoying a 3,000-square-foot, spacious ranch home five miles outside Bakersfield. One cannot put a price on popular culture--sit-coms, hip-hop, blogging, nightclubbing--and its message of being and staying cool. California also reflects the political and cultural divides that are turning the United States into two a