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Old Posted May 17, 2012, 7:46 PM
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I'm assuming that he was meaning a stand-alone 'global city'. It doesn't matter how integrated we are with the Bay Area, San Francisco will always be the City.

But you make an important point. Is there a lack of regional cohesiveness here? Do people in Roseville really deny that they are part of Sacramento? If so why? Is it because these outer suburbs tend to be more racially divided and politically conservative than the City of Sacramento? Maybe it's because of our relatively weak core and it's poor reputation?

But the denial goes both ways. People here in Midtown and in the older closer-in suburbs look down at places like Roseville and Elk Grove -as cultural wastelands full of unsophisticated and very conventional people. They also resent the fact that Roseville should have the region's best shopping while downtown Sacramento struggles.

I think all this is part of the growing-up pains of a city that was not so long ago a smallish capital. In 1980 we only had 275,000 people. That's smaller than Stockton today!
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