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California encompasses many diverse climates and therefore is able to grow many types of produce. Additionally, California's Central Valley contains some of the most fertile soil in the world. California is the number one U.S. producer of many common fruits and vegetables, including broccoli, spinach, tomatoes and avocados, amongst others. [20]
There is also a large population of Assyrian descent living in the Central Valley, with large communities in Modesto, Ceres, and Turlock, as well as throughout the Central Coast and the California Desert (i.e. the Coachella and Imperial Valleys). San Diego has one of the largest concentrations of Chaldean-Assyrian immigrants in the United States.
The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California, United States. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state .
The 10-day “Klan Fiesta” at the Fresno fairgrounds drew 50,000 attendees from throughout California and the Southwest. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners, 1924 KKK ...
Some of the nation’s tightest midterm races are in California’s Central Valley, a 280-mile purple stretch of fertile farmland in the middle of a left-leaning state.
It includes the northern portion of the San Joaquin Valley (which itself is the southern portion of the Central Valley, beginning at the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta), part of the Central Coast, the central hills of the California Coast Ranges and the foothills and mountain areas of the central Sierra Nevada.
California announced the discovery of the virus Aug. 30 after cows at three Central Valley dairies tested positive. Once confirmed, the state placed the dairies under quarantine in an attempt to ...
The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. University of Nevada Press, 1993. ISBN 0-87417-225-X; Igler, David; Clark Davis. The Human Tradition in California. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. ISBN 0-8420-5027-2; La Chapelle, Peter. Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California ...