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Or is it only that there are strident voices from California, sounding across the Sierras and the Rockies, that misrepresent and shame a State whose sons are not unworthy of their fathers?
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid suggests that negative perceptions of California may misrepresent its true character.
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