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Reporter’s Notebook: Rolling through flyover country
The Amtrak station in Oakland. (Photo: Supannee_Hickman, via Shutterstock)We Californians frequently make assumptions about the rest of the country, especially the part that lies east of the Sierra up to the shores of Washington, D. C. Not all of them are true, at least not always. “You guys live in a little blue bubble out there on the coast,” says my son Patrick, an attorney in Washington whom we visited for a few days.