Shortly thereafter I met Jeff Head and the Klamath river basin debacle, and THAT pretty much seemed to seal California's growing fate
I know shortly thereafter my California almonds got expensive and disappeared.
The beginning of the end was when Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown ended the Bracero program, which allowed the temporary itinerant farm laborers to enter California from Mexico in the planting, growing, and harvesting period and then return home. Although a Federal program, Brown refused state cooperation in late 1964. This sparked the permanent illegal immigration of those workers into California to do the much needed farm work. Brown said that unemployed American youth would step up to fill those positions. They didn’t.
Instead of coming and working for a few months and going home, the erstwhile Braceros and other Mexican poor workers came and stayed and then brought their families who also stayed. . . And then sent for extended families to also come across. . . Who then also sent for extended families to come. Babies born in the USA became anchor babies. . . And those children could vote in elections when the grew up. Many illegals started voting just because they could. Democrat politicians and machine apparatchiks facilitated those “voters” to gain seats they otherwise would not have won in the State Legislature and later in statewide offices. . . Disaster followed.
I lived there in mid 60’s and it was going to hell then. I left, i survived.
In the ‘50s and ‘60s they were offering a lot of free stuff to entice folks to move there...when your seeds are corrupted by the wish for free stuff, what grow will be corrupted too.