Justice Scalia Is Right. California Isn’t the Real West
But With Immigration Flatlining and the Climate Drying up, It May Soon Be
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was on the wrong side of most Californians, and history, in his cranky dissent to last week’s landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage across the nation.
But, much as we might hate to admit it, Scalia was right when, in the same dissent, he argued that California isn’t part of the American West. And in so doing, he raised—almost certainly unwittingly—an important question about California’s future.
Scalia made his point via a swipe at his colleagues for being unrepresentative of the United States as a whole (and …
