"The New New York"

"Simply put, it's time for California to accept reality. There will never be '50 Million Californians,' as demographers have predicted for decades. Instead, the population will stall out at about 40 million. Eventually, California will fall behind Texas as the nation's most populous state, just as New York fell behind California back in the '60s."

William Fulton at Slate tells Californians to "let Arizona, Nevada, and Texas try to build prosperity based on population growth."