California's "Soul-Sick" Middle-Class and the Recall

september 3, 2003  10:20 am
California's "Soul-Sick" Middle-Class and the Recall
The Village Voice's Rick Perlstein scours Orange County in vain for anyone who loves Gov. Gray Davis. He finds plenty who hate him, though. A woman in a gated community who shreds her mail so illegal immigrants can't steal her identity. Surfing teenagers who detest the car tax. A congressman who deplores the Chinatowns springing up across the state and "exploding in population." And a grassroots organizer who sums up the recall initiative: "We found an opponent with a really weak hand; we just kept raising and raising the stakes."