SAN FRANCISCO – EARLY JANUARY
The question of where Northern California begins is a famously contentious question among Californians. Here there is a dispute between the Bay Area people and my people, the Southern Californians. Southern Californians believe that the Bay Area is Northern California, but people from the Bay will sometimes tell you that the Bay is just the Bay and that Northern California is the term for what lies northward, that whole lonely stretch from Marin or really from Mendocino up to Crescent City and the Oregon border. No one knows what to do with the Central Coast, or the Central Valley. Various classifications are hazarded, none quite convincing.
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