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THE CALIFORNIA Journal of Politics & Policy Book Review Does Political Geography Determine Political Destiny? A Review of The New Political Geography of California by Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Kenneth P. Miller Graeme Boushey San Francisco State University Reading Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Ken- neth Miller’s The New Political Geography of California (2008), prompted me to imagine a companion volume on the Ancient Political Geography of California, one authored, perhaps, by prominent state historians and an- thropologists who could speak authoritatively on the per- sistence of regional, cultural, political, and economic di- visions from the earliest civilizations to inhabit the state. California entered the Union with strong geographic and political divisions that held important implications for the www.bepress.com/cjpp Volume 3, Issue 1, 2011 development of the state, and a sense of a northern and southern California divide appears to have been entrenched by the division in 1804 of the Spanish Province of Las Cal- ifornias into two separate territorial administrations, Alta and Baja California. Visitors to Sonoma county find Fort Ross, a northern coastal Russian fur trapping outpost from the mid 19 th century perched uncomfortably close the Gen- eral Vallejo’s garrisons in Sonoma, defining the unofficial border of Mexican holdings at the northernmost reach of the Mission trail. The subsequent seizure of California by U.S. troops and the rapid transition to statehood in 1850 did little to calm the regional divide between north and south, and long standing geographic divisions were amplified by a popula- tion boom during the Gold Rush that set the northern half of the state apart from long established farming and ranch- Review of The New Political Geography of California by Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Kenneth P. Miller. 2008. Berkeley: Berkeley Public Policy Press, University of California, Berkeley.

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Does Political Geography Determine Political Destiny? A Review of The New Political Geography of California by Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Kenneth Miller