Fear and Loathing of L.A. and S.F. on the Campaign Trail
Our Gubernatorial Race Could Turn on Which City Californians Resent Most
Which city—San Francisco or Los Angeles—do you love to hate more?
This is shaping up to be California’s question for 2018. Each of the two top contenders for governor is a former mayor of one of those cities, with each embodying certain grievances that Californians hold about their hometowns. And so their campaigns—and the many moneyed interests with a stake in the outcome—are already playing to resentments about these two places.
Gavin Newsom, like San Francisco, is derided as too wealthy, too white, too progressive, too cerebral, too cold, and so …
