Not So Golden After All

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Can This Patient Be Saved?

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.

—Humpty Dumpty poem

Or can we?

With 38 million residents, California is a single political jurisdiction constructed on a multi-faceted, uneven foundation. It is home to people with roots in more than 100 countries and all of the nation’s states. Some are first-generation stakeholders, others go back hundreds of years, but now all are Californians. Many have assimilated; others have not. Ethnic enclaves within the state abound—some voluntarily, ...