Mexican LA No Longer Disappoints

Comments to Steve Sailer:

* I guess this is why SoCal, and LA in particular, is no longer the subject of countless meditations on disillusionment and disappointment. The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the ur-example, but it was an even more common theme in mid-century pop music- Albert Hammond’s “It Never Rains in Southern California“, Mark Lindsay’s “California“, Bacharach’s “Do you Know the Way to San Jose?“, Jim Weatherly’s “Midnight Train to Georgia“, Glen Campbell’s “Country Boy“, and numerous others I can’t recall off the top of my head. It seems nobody gets disappointed by failure in LA anymore, because since at least the Falling Down era, nobody really expects to succeed there?