In considering whether these Inland leaders are on the right track, we can examine what they’re saying about the state and our region and evaluate that against what we know empirically.

Inland supporters of the “state’s-our-buddy” view praise Regions Rise Together, an initiative of Gov. Gavin Newsom, and other organizations such as Inland California Rising, a group co-founded by UC Riverside professor Karthick Ramakrishnan, for pushing objectives like “racial inclusion and sustainability.”

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