America is built on a tilt and everything loose slides to California.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Due to geography or trends, everything loose or new seems to end up in California.
- In plain terms
- Everything slides over to California.
- What can you take from it?
- Trends often concentrate in specific regions.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where is the money flowing?
- Why that place?
Another view
The statement is likely an exaggeration about the Gold Rush era.
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