Rethinking Arizona

Two Arizonans Ponder the Troubled Present and (They Hope) Promising Future of Their State

Arizonans: Only Connect!

Despite what you might believe as a result of last year’s contentious immigration debate and this month’s horrifying shooting in Tucson, Arizona is not some rogue state populated entirely by crazies. Arizonans, in fact, mostly share the values and aspirations of people in the rest of the country, which is not surprising given that a high proportion of Arizonans have recently migrated from someplace else.

That fact does make the state distinctive, shaped by its rapid growth in recent decades, and the transformation from a sparsely settled frontier state …