By Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox, includes “Some longtime Californians view the continued net outmigration from their state as a worrisome sign, but most others in the Golden State’s media, academic, and political establishment dismiss this demographic decline as a 'myth.' The Sacramento Bee suggests that it largely represents the ‘hate’ felt toward the state by conservatives eager to undermine California’s progressive model. … Reality reveals a different picture. California may be a great state in many ways, but it also is clearly breaking bad.”