California Dreamin'

When I graduated from high school in Omaha, NE, in 1962, it was a curious fact that a disproportionate number of my classmates intended to go to California and take advantage of its remarkable higher education system that was close to free.
But according to Taplin's source, Big Daddy got tired of paying the bills, then got paranoid about crime.
And then, and then, the debacle that is California's budget.
Quite a nice historical perspective.

UPDATE:
And then there's Florida:

If every home in Boston received a foreclosure notice, the total would still be less than Florida’s.