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A 3 page paper that discusses myths about Northern California, wilderness, fog, overshadowed by San Francisco, etc. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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when he travels to the southern part of the state. First of all, when he travels to Minnesota, relatives, in an effort to make small talk, inevitably ask how close
David, who is from Yuba City which is near Sacramento, lives to Los Angeles and patiently explains that he is quite a long distance from L.A. Having established that California
is a very long state, his relatives immediately jump to the conclusion that he must, then, live close to San Francisco. David remarks that this is typical of the out-of-state
mindset about California, which conceives of Northern California (or NorCal, as David refers to it0. as being synonymous with the Bay Area and how this is "simply not true" (Rigsby).
Yet Rigsby sees the symmetry in how L.A. tends to dominate the public mindset when it comes to Southern California, while San Francisco overshadows the North. Nevertheless, he finds
that myths about California can also be found in fellow citizens who live in the Southern half. For example, when folks from SoCal learn that David is from a town
that is not only north of San Francisco, but also north of Sacramento, they immediately equate this with wilderness. While NorCal is proud of its landscapes, there is "still civilization
up there" (Rigsby). However, while David admits that the days of the pioneers are over, "like many myths," he supposes that there is "some truth" in this one, as
his hometown, "like a lot of Gold Rush towns," is proud of its past and its origins and stresses community history, with "parades and Founders Day celebrations" (Rigsby). ON January
24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutters sawmill and the California Gold Rush of 49 changed Davids part of the state irrevocably ("California"). David once asked a UCLA
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