In Patricia Nelson Limerick's article "Would the Real Californian Please Stand up," the author concludes that O as much as they have historically resisted it, California must be a racially, ethnically, and socially inclusive society. O the oppression against blacks, Amerindians, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Italians, Irish etc. etc. proves that California does not totally deserve its reputation for liberal tolerance. O real Californians, with all their contradictions, prejudices, transience, and interest in the new, are impossible to define with any thing akin to certainty. O All of these cases are made in Limerick's article.

In Patricia Nelson Limerick's article "Would the Real Californian Please Stand up," the author concludes that O as much as they have historically resisted it, California must be a racially, ethnically, and socially inclusive society. O the oppression against blacks, Amerindians, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Italians, Irish etc. etc. proves that California does not totally deserve its reputation for liberal tolerance. O real Californians, with all their contradictions, prejudices, transience, and interest in the new, are impossible to define with any thing akin to certainty. O All of these cases are made in Limerick's article.